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PLANET FORMATION: IS IT TURBULENT OR TRANQUIL?

There are so many different types of planets – terrestrial planets like Earth, gas giants like Jupiter and dwarf planets like Pluto T – but every cake must start with simpler ingredients, and planets are no exception. For planets these are the gases and minute dust particles that circled the infant Sun in the vast flattened disc we

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