HOW PLANETS ARE MADE
Oct 31, 2019
2 minutes
Words by Dr Andrew May
“Excess spin creates a wide disc of material orbiting the newly formed star”
Planet formation is a spinoff – literally – of star formation. Stars are born in interstellar space, which for the most part is filled with extremely tenuous gas and dust. But some regions of the interstellar medium, called molecular clouds, are much denser than their surroundings. It’s here that
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