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Astronomers Witness an Alien Solar System’s Birth for the First Time
Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For now, however, it’s shrouded by a vast and obscuring envelope of inflowing material—baby food for a hungry stellar newborn.
A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.
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Birth of a Solar System Witnessed in Spectacular Scientific FirstAround a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.
Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the center of a nascent version of our own solar system.
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