January 3rd, 2013
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Zoom smithsonianmag: Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed Astronomers studying a newborn star have caught a detailed glimpse of planets forming around it, revealing a never-before seen stage of planetary evolution. Large gas giant planets appear to be clearing a gap in the disk of material surrounding the star, and using gravity to channel material across the gap to the interior, helping the star to grow. Theoretical simulations have predicted such bridges between outer and inner portions of disks surrounding stars, but none have been directly observed until now. - Continue reading at Live Science. Photo by: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M.Kornmesser (ESO) Ed note: This newly discovered Earth-like planet could be habitable.

smithsonianmag:

Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed

Astronomers studying a newborn star have caught a detailed glimpse of planets forming around it, revealing a never-before seen stage of planetary evolution.

Large gas giant planets appear to be clearing a gap in the disk of material surrounding the star, and using gravity to channel material across the gap to the interior, helping the star to grow. Theoretical simulations have predicted such bridges between outer and inner portions of disks surrounding stars, but none have been directly observed until now. - Continue reading at Live Science.

Photo by: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M.Kornmesser (ESO)

Ed note: This newly discovered Earth-like planet could be habitable.

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