Research on ‘polluted’ dwarf stars suggests stars and planets may have ‘grown’ together

Research on ‘polluted’ dwarf stars suggests stars and planets may have ‘grown’ together

It is generally believed that stars form millions of years before the planets that orbit them, with the leftover material from star formation accumulating to form planets. But new research on “polluted white dwarfs” adds to evidence which suggests that the building blocks of planets like Jupiter and Saturn start forming when a young star […]

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