Planet Formation Process

388402 01: According to observations made by astronomers, planet formation is a hazardous and violent process, April 26, 2001. These four snapshots, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on February 26, 1998 and January 11, 1999, show dust disks around embryonic stars in the Orion Nebula being "blowtorched" by a blistering flood of ultraviolet radiation from the region's brightest star. Within these disks are the seeds of planets. The doomed systems look like hapless comets, with wayward tails of gas boiling off the withering, pancake-shaped disks. (Photo courtesy of NASA/Newsmakers)
388402 01: According to observations made by astronomers, planet formation is a hazardous and violent process, April 26, 2001. These four snapshots, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on February 26, 1998 and January 11, 1999, show dust disks around embryonic stars in the Orion Nebula being "blowtorched" by a blistering flood of ultraviolet radiation from the region's brightest star. Within these disks are the seeds of planets. The doomed systems look like hapless comets, with wayward tails of gas boiling off the withering, pancake-shaped disks. (Photo courtesy of NASA/Newsmakers)
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