How do planets form? A 'baby Jupiter' hundreds of light-years away offers new clues
- Written by: Peter Tuthill, Astrophysicist, University of Sydney
Artist's impression of a giant planet forming.NASA, ESA, STScI, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own Solar System.
However, the discovery of planets around distant stars in the 1990s made it clear that the picture was much...
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