Monday, 17 March 2008

A Disk of Sand Found Orbiting a Young Binary System


Source: Universe Today

It's amazing to think that the Sun and planets formed out of a diffuse cloud of gas and dust. Somehow, the dust clung together into larger and larger particles - grains of sand. This sand then went on to become pebbles, rocks, and eventually entire planets. Well now astronomers have discovered a young star system with a disk of sand-sized particles orbiting it.
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