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A new discovery is changing how scientists think about how stars and planets are formed. When a star is born, it’s usually ...

4.5 billion years ago the Sun was formed in a swirling cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula. In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal on April 28th, a team of internationally ...

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