PARIS, France — Astronomers said Wednesday they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing a process that sheds light on the birth of our own solar system.
PARIS, France — Astronomers said Wednesday they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing a process that sheds light on the birth of our own solar system.The new planetary system is forming around the baby star HOPS-315 -- which resembles our own Sun in its youth -- 1,300 light years from Earth in the Orion Nebula.Young stars are surrounded by massive rings of gas and dust called protoplanetary discs, which is where planets form.
Now astronomers have spotted signs that suggest these hot minerals are starting to solidify in the disc surrounding HOPS-315, according to a new study in the journal Nature.'For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,' lead study author Melissa McClure of Leiden University in the Netherlands said in a statement.The minerals around the star were first spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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