Not exact matches
A new study reveals that young
planetary systems elsewhere are surprisingly
violent, with huge collisions (inset) that produce bright but short - lived bands of dust.
Dynamicists simulating the solar
system's early days are finding that a
violent reshuffling of bodies large and small may explain many of today's
planetary mysteries.
The astronomers believe that the orbits of the planets was disturbed by a
violent event after the
planetary system had already formed.
Hubble investigations of January 1997 have revealed interesting interactions of the young hot Trapezium cluster stars with the protoplanetary disks: Their
violent radiation tends to destruct the discs, so that the lower - mass stars forming here may loose the material needed to form
planetary systems.