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Never-Before-Seen Stage of Planet Birth Revealed
SPACE.com ^
| 02 January 2013 Time: 01:00 PM ET
| Nola Taylor Redd,
Posted on 01/03/2013 2:51:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Astronomers studying a newborn star have caught a detailed glimpse of planets forming around it, revealing a never-before seen stage of planetary evolution.
Large gas giant planets appear to be clearing a gap in the disk of material surrounding the star, and using gravity to channel material across the gap to the interior, helping the star to grow. Theoretical simulations have predicted such bridges between outer and inner portions of disks surrounding stars, but none have been directly observed until now.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: xplanets
Cool pic at the link. View "full size"
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posted on
01/03/2013 2:51:19 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv
APod bonus.
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posted on
01/03/2013 2:58:32 PM PST
by
Squawk 8888
(True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
To: Squawk 8888
Looks like the Eye of Sauron
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posted on
01/03/2013 3:20:07 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
To: Squawk 8888
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posted on
01/03/2013 3:20:29 PM PST
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
To: Squawk 8888
I’m thinking Bozo the Clown, or Ronald McDonald...
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posted on
01/03/2013 3:37:55 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: Squawk 8888
To: BenLurkin
Hey, God, we caught you in the act! :)
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posted on
01/03/2013 4:22:14 PM PST
by
lowbridge
(Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
To: BenLurkin
The following are the identical closing words from Darwins Origin of the Species and that books modern update
Steve Jones Darwins Ghost.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one, and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
To: BenLurkin
Gas giant.
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posted on
01/03/2013 4:32:56 PM PST
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
She has a yellow hue to her skin......she would be a perfect candidate for hepatitis.
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posted on
01/03/2013 4:37:05 PM PST
by
Toespi
To: BenLurkin
Ah, they grow up so quickly. Today born, tomorrow crawling, the next day college!
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posted on
01/03/2013 4:42:30 PM PST
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(Gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international. Gone.)
To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv
Very cool to see a pic of a developing Solar System. Wish we could get closer, more detailed looks at it!
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posted on
01/03/2013 6:14:11 PM PST
by
KoRn
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01/03/2013 6:45:45 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Squawk 8888; brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; ...
Nice pic, and good idea, thanks Squawk 8888!
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01/03/2013 6:48:28 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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