These Spinning Disks of Gas and Dust Reveal How Planets Get Made

Over the past two and half centuries, scientists envisioning the origin of planetary systems (including our own) have focused on a specific scene: a spinning disk around a newborn star, sculpting planets out of gas and dust like clay on a potter’s wheel. Quanta Magazine About Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an …

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