Study of ‘polluted’ white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow together (IMAGE)

University of Cambridge

Study of ‘polluted’ white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow together

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A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.

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Amanda Smith

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