Astronomers get first-ever glimpse of unconventional formation of gas giant - News9 LIVE

Aurigae b is nine times as massive as Jupiter and orbits its host star at twice the distance between ...

The dominant theory for the formation of gas giants is known as core accretion, where the leftover matter from star formation begin to collide and clump up. According to an alternative theory known a… [+2199 chars]

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