3D Simulation (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

3D Simulation

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An SwRI-led team performed 3D simulations of the streaming instability model of planet formation, where particle clumping triggers gravitational collapse into planetesimals. This snapshot from the simulation shows the vertically integrated density of solids, projected on the protoplanetary disk plane.

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HST/StSci/SwRI/Simon Porter

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