Sentences with phrase «young solar system»

They've also looked to distant, younger solar systems still in varying stages of development.

Future research will examine how young solar systems form and change over time.

«Even if our formation wasn't triggered by a supernova, the presence of decay products of certain radioactive elements points to a supernova perhaps seeding the already formed young solar system with enriched elements.»

Studying younger solar systems such as 51 Eridani will help astronomers understand the formation of our neighbor planets, and how common that planet - forming mechanism is throughout the universe.

On the outskirts of our young solar system, such dust grains stuck together with tiny grains of ice — now known to be common throughout space.

Another surprising clue came from comets that apparently derived some of their material from relatively warm parts of the young solar system.

Clumps grow into arcs, rings, and oval features in tens of thousands of years, a relatively short time compared to other forces at work in a young solar system.

Based on studies of comets, researchers believe that these young solar systems swirl with ice crystals and wispy gases that coalesce into gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter.

Because interplanetary dust was rampant in the young solar system, he says, «This may have been a good way to get some of the prebiotic molecules onto the early Earth.»

Studying the craters on the moon offers a window into that violent history of the young solar system that is not nearly as accessible on Earth.

As I posted previously, planetary magnetic fields give us strong evidence for a young solar system and a young earth.