Scientists studying 'polluted' white dwarf stars found new insights into how planets are made, and it turns out that stars and planets grow up at the same time.
We still have a lot to learn about our solar system's childhood. Since we can't go back to the beginning, astronomers rely on other stars for insight into the early years of how stars and their planets are made.
Recently, a team of astronomers found evidence that stars and planets actually grow up together, forming at the same time in a"We have a pretty good idea of how planets form, but one outstanding question we've had is when they form: does planet formation start early, when the parent star is still growing, or millions of years later?" Amy Bonsor, an astronomer at Cambridge University in the U.K.
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