Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Wandering celestial bodies provide a glimpse into the formation of stars and planets

Vienna, Austria (SPX) Dec 28, 2021
The nature of free-floating planets (FFPs) is still mysterious. FFPs might originate in two ways: they either form on their own, like stars, through the gravitational collapse of small clouds of gas, or they form like planets around stars and then get stripped off from their stellar systems. Until now it was hard to investigate which formation mechanism is more likely, as a large homogenous samp

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