Planetary Formation in a Hot 2-D Cloud? (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Planetary Formation in a Hot 2-D Cloud?

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The WUSTL planetary scientists say that the solar system we know today could not have formed out of a flat, hot disk that postdates the sun, like the one shown in this artist's impression.

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ESO/L. Calçada

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