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Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday that it’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero” when new worlds begin to gel. The Dutch-led team used NASA’s Webb Space Telescope and a telescope in Chile to observe a young star some 1,370 light-years away…
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Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday that it’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero” when new worlds begin to gel. The Dutch-led team used NASA’s Webb Space Telescope and a telescope in Chile to observe a young star some 1,370 light-years away…