"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands and lead author of the new study

Article : https://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-releases/for-the-first-time-astronomers-witness-the-dawn-of-a-new-solar-system/

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought solar systems were hatched from eggs. I didn’t know they were mammals. I guess the Milky Way makes more sense now.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A common misunderstanding, planetary systems are marsupials, they must stay in their mother’s protective womb of stellar gasses until they can fend for themselves.