Sentences with phrase «remnants of planetary formation»

It's no surprise that such a space rock, or comet, exists — scientists expect such grist to be wobbling around the galaxy, the ejected remnants of planetary formation.

Not exact matches

Since then, she has done research on star formation, extragalactic ionized nebulae, classical novae, supernova remnants, and most of all, planetary nebulae.

Models of planetary formation suggest that giant extrasolar planets detected very near their stars formed at greater distances and migrated inward as a result of gravitational interactions with remnants of the circumstellar disks from which they accumulated.

Despite their relatively youth, many A-type stars are already old enough that most of the dust found around these relatively short - lived are not a remnant of the star formation process but are instead generated through collisions of larger proto - planetary bodies.