Astronomers Conclude That Fewer Than 1% of Stars Have a MMSN Disk

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics studying the birth of solar systems have found thirteen stars with detectable disks, none of which is as massive as the early Solar system’s disk. Astronomers estimate that at the time the Solar system formed, its proto-planetary disk contained the equivalent of about twenty Jupiter-masses of gas and […]
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