Artist's Conception of Planets Forming in a Transition Disk like LkCA 15 (IMAGE)

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Artist's Conception of Planets Forming in a Transition Disk like LkCA 15

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This is an artist's conception of planets forming in a transition disk like LkCa 15. The planets within the disk clearing sweep up material that would have otherwise fallen onto the star.

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Attribution: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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