Iron meteorites hint that our infant solar system was more doughnut than dartboard
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2024
Four and a half billion years ago, our solar system was a cloud of gas and dust swirling around the sun, until gas began to condense and accrete along with dust to form asteroids and planets. What did this cosmic nursery, known as a protoplanetary disk, look like, and how was it structured? Astronomers can use telescopes to "see" protoplanetary disks far away from our much more mature solar syst
Four and a half billion years ago, our solar system was a cloud of gas and dust swirling around the sun, until gas began to condense and accrete along with dust to form asteroids and planets. What did this cosmic nursery, known as a protoplanetary disk, look like, and how was it structured? Astronomers can use telescopes to "see" protoplanetary disks far away from our much more mature solar syst