'Baby Jupiter' discovered in the process of forming around a star 500 light-years away - Verve Times

How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own solar system.However, the discovery of planets around distant stars in the 1990s made it clear that the picture

How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own solar system. However, the discovery of planets around dista… [+6788 chars]

full article...