Saturday, 15 November 2014

Pulling together the early solar system

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Pulling together the early solar system
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 14, 2014 - Infant planetary systems are usually nothing more than swirling disks of gas and dust. Over the course of a few million years, this gas gets sucked into the center of the disk to build a star, while the remaining dust accumulates into larger and larger chunks - the building blocks for terrestrial planets. Astronomers have observed this protoplanetary disk evolution throughout our galaxy - ... more


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