Parabolic Flight Experiments Delve into Planetary Formation What happens in a protoplanetary disk to create planetesimals around a star? We know the general story -- the material begins to clump together and eventually grows from dust grains to rocky bodies capable of sticking together to make planets. But, how does that dust begin the aggregation journey? That's what a research team from the Switzerland wanted to know. So, they did experiments aboard parabolic micro-gravity flights to find an answer.

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New Lunar Samples Challenge the "Late Heavy Bombardment" Results are coming out from the samples returned by China’s Chang’e-6 sample return mission to the far side of the Moon. They offer our first close-up look at the geology and history of the far side, and a recent paper published in Science Advances from researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has very interesting insights about the impact history of the Moon itself, and even some for the solar system at large.

New Lunar Samples Challenge the "Late Heavy Bombardment" #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #LunarSamples #LateHeavyBombardment #PlanetaryFormation

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New Research Suggest Earth and Theia were Neighbors Before They Collided About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia collided with the young Earth. How the collision unfolded and what exactly happened...

New Research Suggest Earth and Theia were Neighbors Before They Collided #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #Theia #PlanetaryFormation #SpaceResearch

The Intruder That Knocked Our Planets Askew Billions of years ago, a rogue planet eight times more massive than Jupiter tore through our Solar System, passing closer to the Sun than Mars orbits today. That single violent encounter may explain why...

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Astronomers observed a massive plasma eruption from a young star, highlighting how early solar events may have shaped Earth's atmosphere and life's chemical beginnings. 🌌 #SolarEruption #PlanetaryFormation #Astrobiology Link: https://tinyurl.com/235xrsf9

Theia Collision Delivered Water, Making Early Earth Habitable

Isotope clocks show Earth’s core chemistry fixed within 3 Myr of the Sun’s birth, then a Theia impact delivered water and created the Moon. Read more: getnews.me/theia-collision-delivere... #earthscience #planetaryformation

Near-infrared Hubble images reveal dust disks around stars HD 141569 and HR 4796A. Gaps in these disks, similar to Saturn's rings, suggest the presence of unseen orbiting planets. The image includes a scale showing the diameter of Neptune's orbit for comparison. The bright starlight has been blocked to enhance visibility of the faint dust features.

Astronomy Picture from 20/01/1999

Possible Planets And Infrared Dust

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Distant Galaxy Has Similar Icy Dust to the Milky Way. So, Similar Planets? For most of us, dust is just something we have to clean up. For astronomers, interstellar dust is a hindrance when they want to study distant objects. However, recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)...

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Infrared image of the Beta Pictoris planetary system. The image shows the star's dusty debris disk and the giant planet Beta Pictoris b at two different positions in its orbit (October 2003 & November 2009), captured by the European Southern Observatory telescopes. The planet's orbit is roughly the size of Saturn's orbit around our Sun.

Astronomy Picture from 03/07/2010

A Giant Planet for Beta Pic

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When Dinosaurs Roamed, New Worlds Were Born – Now Scientists Are Studying Them A groundbreaking collaboration between Michigan State University, Arizona State University, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is unlocking the secrets of planetary formation. Using the James ...

When Dinosaurs Roamed, New Worlds Were Born – Now Scientists Are Studying Them

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More great work from the JWST and if we'd been around at the time of the dinos we'd have been mincemeat #PlanetaryFormation

Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps All the science news you can handle in a single feed

Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #EarthIceCaps #ClimateScience #PlanetaryFormation

Meteorites From the Earliest Planets Reveal How Earth Lost Certain Elements Learn about the new perspective on Earth's reduction of moderately volatile elements, a discovery made possible by meteorites from the early solar system.

Meteorites From the Earliest Planets Reveal How Earth Lost Certain Elements #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #Meteorites #EarthScience #PlanetaryFormation

Pluto and Charon formed through a 'kiss and capture' collision New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

Pluto and Charon formed through a ‘kiss and capture’ collision: New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

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Astronomers Unveil the Youngest Known Transiting Exoplanet: A ‘Newborn’ World Astronomers jus...

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