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Researchers using Kepler space telescope have discovered how circumbinary planets form.
Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 13:58
A team of astronomers were left mystified after they discovered a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 24, 2013, 20:56
A team of researchers` observed a disk around the young star RY Tau and have claimed that above it is responsible for the scattered light observed in the infrared image.
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Computer models suggest that dust grains grow when they collide and stick together. However, when these bigger grains collide again at high speed they are often smashed to pieces and sent back to square one.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 19, 2012, 09:57
An international team of researchers has proposed that metals like magnesium might have an important role in the formation of low mass planets.
Last Updated: Monday, April 23, 2012, 17:59
Usually, planets form in star systems with comparatively high concentrations of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, a new study has suggested.
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