🌌 For the first time, astronomers have captured evidence of gravitational instability—a lesser-known, rapid planet formation process. Spotted around a young star 5,000 light years away, this could change how we understand cosmic creation. 🌍✨
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsPlanets form from dust and gas. But how, exactly? Under the more popular accretion model, they accrete over millions of years as one particle collides with another.
This rapidly changing star system sits 5,000 light years from our own in the constellation of Monoceros, a unicorn-like animal. Astronomers have watched the young star since it increased in brightness more than 20 times in 2014.
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