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Astronomers Witness an Alien Solar System’s Birth for the First Time
Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For now, however, it’s shrouded by a vast and obscuring envelope of inflowing material—baby food for a hungry stellar newborn.
The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...
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Astronomers see a new solar system forming for the first time
While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...
International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...
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