A press release on this research, «A Drastic Chemical Change Occurring in
Birth of Planetary System: Has the Solar System also Experienced it?»
«Drastic chemical change occurring in
birth of planetary system: Has the solar system also experienced it?.»
Not exact matches
The sun's
birth environment couldn't have been too crowded, the logic went, because
planetary systems, like ours, could never survive the gravitational jostling
of neighboring stars in urban clusters.
«To be able to directly image
planetary birth environments around other stars at orbital distances comparable to the solar
system is a major advancement,» said Dr Nikku Madhusudhan
of Cambridge's Institute
of Astronomy, one
of the paper's co-authors.
In addition many theoretical studies
of the formation
of planetary systems out
of contracting clouds
of interstellar gas and dust imply that the
birth of planets frequently if not inevitably accompanies the
birth of stars.