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Why Do All The Sun’s Planets Orbit In (Almost) The Same Plane?representation of the planets orbiting the sun, with their orbital paths shown

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Why Do All The Sun’s Planets Orbit In (Almost) The Same Plane?representation of the planets orbiting the sun, with their orbital paths shown
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Why Do All The Sun’s Planets Orbit In (Almost) The Same Plane?

clock-iconJanuary 23, 2026
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Pioneering Heavy Water Detection Suggests Earth's Water Might Be Older Than The Sunin this drawing, the earth and the young sun are visible and out of proportion. two comets are also visible. Interplanetary material and the tails of the comet are cover in molecule diagrams showing a mix of regular and heavy water.

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Pioneering Heavy Water Detection Suggests Earth's Water Might Be Older Than The Sunin this drawing, the earth and the young sun are visible and out of proportion. two comets are also visible. Interplanetary material and the tails of the comet are cover in molecule diagrams showing a mix of regular and heavy water.
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Pioneering Heavy Water Detection Suggests Earth's Water Might Be Older Than The Sun

clock-iconOctober 16, 2025
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Forget Alien Spacecrafts: Could Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Be A Planet-Forming Seed?Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Forget Alien Spacecrafts: Could Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Be A Planet-Forming Seed?Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Forget Alien Spacecrafts: Could Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Be A Planet-Forming Seed?

clock-iconSeptember 22, 2025
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How Old Is The Solar System? (And How Can We Tell?)When the Solar System was just forming, it might have looked like this, but when was that.

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How Old Is The Solar System? (And How Can We Tell?)When the Solar System was just forming, it might have looked like this, but when was that.
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How Old Is The Solar System? (And How Can We Tell?)

clock-iconAugust 29, 2025
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Outstanding Photos Show First Baby Planet Growing In The Grooves Of A Stellar Diskthe two images side by side. The first one show a tiny dot within a dark ring withing a much larger disk. In the second one the disk is not really visible but the dot, and other strucutre is below.

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Outstanding Photos Show First Baby Planet Growing In The Grooves Of A Stellar Diskthe two images side by side. The first one show a tiny dot within a dark ring withing a much larger disk. In the second one the disk is not really visible but the dot, and other strucutre is below.
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Outstanding Photos Show First Baby Planet Growing In The Grooves Of A Stellar Disk

clock-iconAugust 28, 2025

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Stepping Stones To Life-Crucial Molecules Found In Planet-Forming Disk: “It’s Really Exciting!”Artist impression showing two donuts of gas of different color (cold out and hot in) around a baby star. an inset show possible molecules within the gas

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Stepping Stones To Life-Crucial Molecules Found In Planet-Forming Disk: “It’s Really Exciting!”Artist impression showing two donuts of gas of different color (cold out and hot in) around a baby star. an inset show possible molecules within the gas
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Stepping Stones To Life-Crucial Molecules Found In Planet-Forming Disk: “It’s Really Exciting!”

clock-iconJuly 24, 2025
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Water Tornadoes Are Surprisingly Good At Modeling Planetary FormationA protoplanetary disk (illustration).

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Water Tornadoes Are Surprisingly Good At Modeling Planetary FormationA protoplanetary disk (illustration).
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Water Tornadoes Are Surprisingly Good At Modeling Planetary Formation

clock-iconJuly 23, 2025
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Northwest Africa 12264: Ancient Meteorite May Change Our Timeline Of The Solar SystemA protoplanet forming around a star (illustration).

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Northwest Africa 12264: Ancient Meteorite May Change Our Timeline Of The Solar SystemA protoplanet forming around a star (illustration).
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Northwest Africa 12264: Ancient Meteorite May Change Our Timeline Of The Solar System

clock-iconJuly 16, 2025
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Protoplanetary Disks Captured By ExoALMA Astronomers In Extraordinary DetailexoALMA images of protoplanetary discs.

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Protoplanetary Disks Captured By ExoALMA Astronomers In Extraordinary DetailexoALMA images of protoplanetary discs.
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Protoplanetary Disks Captured By ExoALMA Astronomers In Extraordinary Detail

clock-iconMay 1, 2025
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Newly Discovered Transiting Exoplanet Is The Youngest Ever Found At Under 3 Million Years OldAn artist's depiction of the system showing the host star, transiting planet, misaligned transition disk, and wide binary companion (in the background)

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Newly Discovered Transiting Exoplanet Is The Youngest Ever Found At Under 3 Million Years OldAn artist's depiction of the system showing the host star, transiting planet, misaligned transition disk, and wide binary companion (in the background)
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Newly Discovered Transiting Exoplanet Is The Youngest Ever Found At Under 3 Million Years Old

clock-iconNovember 20, 2024
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Vega Has A Disk Of Material Around It – And It Is Shockingly Smoothtwo images side to side. The hubble one looks a bit like a LP record with thin little grovoes and rais stretching from the middle the jwst is very smooth and uniform with a ring structure away from the star.

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Vega Has A Disk Of Material Around It – And It Is Shockingly Smoothtwo images side to side. The hubble one looks a bit like a LP record with thin little grovoes and rais stretching from the middle the jwst is very smooth and uniform with a ring structure away from the star.
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Vega Has A Disk Of Material Around It – And It Is Shockingly Smooth

clock-iconNovember 4, 2024
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Failed Stars Might Be Able To Form Planets, Cosmic First Observations SuggestA jwst image of the wispy orion nebula. Two insets show the candidates of brown dwarf with protoplanetary disks

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Failed Stars Might Be Able To Form Planets, Cosmic First Observations SuggestA jwst image of the wispy orion nebula. Two insets show the candidates of brown dwarf with protoplanetary disks
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Failed Stars Might Be Able To Form Planets, Cosmic First Observations Suggest

clock-iconOctober 31, 2024
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Incredible Photos Capture Star Systems Giving Birth To Planets In A Variety Of Waysselection of 10 protoplanetary disks of different shapes

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Incredible Photos Capture Star Systems Giving Birth To Planets In A Variety Of Waysselection of 10 protoplanetary disks of different shapes
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Incredible Photos Capture Star Systems Giving Birth To Planets In A Variety Of Ways

clock-iconMarch 6, 2024
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“Dracula's Chivito” Is This Year's Best Name For A Newly Found Astronomical ObjectThis star hidden by a side-on protoplanetary disk has been named Dracula's Chivito after "fangs" that can't be seen in this photo.

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“Dracula's Chivito” Is This Year's Best Name For A Newly Found Astronomical ObjectThis star hidden by a side-on protoplanetary disk has been named Dracula's Chivito after "fangs" that can't be seen in this photo.
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“Dracula's Chivito” Is This Year's Best Name For A Newly Found Astronomical Object

clock-iconFebruary 14, 2024
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Rocky Planets Can Form Even In The Most Extreme EnvironmentsThis is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming.

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Rocky Planets Can Form Even In The Most Extreme EnvironmentsThis is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming.
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Rocky Planets Can Form Even In The Most Extreme Environments

clock-iconDecember 1, 2023
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