Planet formation
Moon-Forming Protoplanet Theia Originated from Inner Solar System, New Research Suggests
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Moon formed from a giant collision of proto-earth with an ancient protoplanet Theia. In a new study, a team of ...
ALMA Detects Heavy Water in Planet-Forming Disk around Distant Protostar
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Astronomers using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) discovered doubly deuterated water (D2O), or “heavy water”, in the protoplanetary disk around ...
3I/ATLAS-Like Interstellar Objects Could Kick Start Planet Formation around High-Mass Stars
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Opening 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that a significant number of interstellar objects inhabit interstellar space. Their ubiquity means that ...
