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June 17, 2013

Exoplanet formation surprise
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 18, 2013
A team of researchers has discovered evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from its star-- about twice the distance Pluto is from our Sun. The planet lies inside a dusty, gaseous disk around a small red dwarf TW Hydrae, which is only about 55 percent of the mass of the Sun. The discovery adds to the ever-increasing variety of planetary systems in the Milky Way. The research is published in the Astrophysical Journal.* This dusty protoplanetary disk is the closest one to us, so ... read more

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