Hubble Detects How Planet Forms Through 'Intense And Violent' Process, Orbiting A Young Star
ABP NewsNew Delhi: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a planet forming through what scientists describe as an "intense and violent process." It has long been debated that planets like Jupiter form through a process called "disk instability", which refers to a model for giant planet formation in which a region of a circumstellar disc becomes dense and cool enough to be unstable to gravitational collapse, resulting in the formation of a gaseous protoplanet. The Jupiter-like protoplanet under construction, called AB Aurigae b, is embedded in a protoplanetary disc of dust and gas with distinct spiral structure swirling around a young star estimated to be around two million years old, NASA said on its website. This means that the planet is not forming through the core accretion process, but is being formed through the disk instability approach, the researchers concluded.
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