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Creation of a solar system

The orbits of the main bodies in the solar system. Courtesy of CALTECH

A new solution to an old mystery: Why isn't the interior of our solar system spinning faster?

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The key to solving a long-standing mystery about thin disks of gas orbiting young stars: the movement of a small number of charged particles. This is claimed in a new Caltech study
Imaginary illustration of an extrasolar gas giant as seen from one of its moons. Illustration: shutterstock

A giant planet orbiting a red dwarf blurs the line between large planets and small stars

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A neutron star collision that creates a supernova. Illustration: shutterstock

Prof. Zvi Piran to the Hidaan website: "The solar system was lucky during its formation to receive an excess of heavy elements from the close merger of neutron stars"

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This artist's illustration shows what happened immediately after a large asteroid impact around NGC 2,547-ID8, a 35-million-year-old Sun-like star that is beginning to form rocky planets. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Spitzer Space Telescope observed the results of an asteroid collision in another solar system

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Magnetic loops carry gas and dust above a disk where planets form around stars as seen in this artist rendering Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The mystery of disks from which planets are formed has been solved with the help of magnetism

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Far from the sun, but not cold. A simulation of the planet HD106906b. Photo: NASA, University of Arizona

Far from the Sun: Discovery of a Planet Challenges Scientific Conventions

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Preplanetary Adsorption Disc. Image: NASA

Cosmic eddies caused the formation of stars and black holes

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An artist's rendering of the various configurations of the asteroid belt that could appear. Figure: NASA/ESA/A. Feild, STScI

A study in which Prof. Mario Livio participated: deadly asteroids to a degree necessary for the development of complex life

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The dust disappears around the star known as TYC 8241 2652. Photo: University of California

Houdini in Space: A large amount of gas around a star has mysteriously disappeared

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Discovering planets outside the solar system using the eclipse method, the method used by the Kepler space telescope. Photo: NASA

The formation of minor planets does not require a high abundance of heavy elements

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Artist's impression showing the planet within the disc of Beta Pictoris. Illustration: Southern European Observatory, L. Calchada

Gaseous planets form rapidly

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Comet Hale-Bop. Photography: A. Kolmhofer, H. Raab, Johannes Kepler Observatory, Linz, Austria

Many famous comets were probably visitors from outside the solar system

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Preplanetary Nebula 181825 inside Orion. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

This is how planets are born - pre-planetary nebulae in the Orion Nebula

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The last great bombardment on Earth. brought the water and the atmosphere

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space

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Spitzer reveals how a planet was born

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What will life look like around a cold sun?

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Will there be evidence of a planet that orbited the sun in an orbit not far from that of the earth?

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Planets can form around binary stars

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The sweet milky way

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A "small bang" causes the formation of the solar system

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For the first time, a planet orbiting a sun similar to ours has been photographed

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Dozens of planets

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A 5 million year old constellation has been discovered

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Stellar embryos discovered in the Triffid Nebula

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A close encounter with a passing star may have caused the shape of the solar system

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