Planets Formed Much Faster Than Previously Thought

Planets Formed Much Faster Than Previously Thought

A new study from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands suggests that planets might form in a few hundred thousand years that earlier predicted. Using the data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Array (VLA), a team of Dutch researchers has described new observations of protostars in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, and they observed that the conditions in these extremely young systems are accurate for planet formation. The implication of this discovery is profound and it clearly indicates that it is in the first few hundred thousand years that planet formation takes place.

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