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The secrets of how planets form
Astronomers who were measuring the length of one day on an exoplanet for the first time were in for a surprise: it was shorter than any planet’s in the Solar System. Beta Pictoris b, orbiting the star Beta Pictoris, has … Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, Beta Pictoris b, centrifugal force, curve plotting, escape velocity, exoplanets, gravitation, Kuiper Belt, monomial, neutron stars, non-linearity, planet formation, Solar System, spin-mass correlation, strong nuclear force
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