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Astronomers Caught Four Planets in a Rare Baby Phase That May Explain the Most Common Worlds in The Galaxy

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...
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Experts Are Finally Getting a Look at How the Universe Builds Its Most Common Planets

A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.
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Strange worlds: Planets are forming in ways we didn’t anticipate

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Four baby planets show how super-Earths and sub-Neptunes form

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...
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Baby planets offer a missing clue to the galaxy’s most abundant worlds

New research tracks young planets around a nearby star, showing how large, gas-rich worlds shrink over time to become the most common planets in the galaxy ...
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Astronomers find missing link to galaxy's most common planets

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...