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What Separates the Inner and Outer Planets?

The solar system is divided into two main regions: the inner planets and the outer planets. The boundary is marked by the asteroid belt, which lies between Mars and Jupiter. This separation reflects how the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, when temperature and material distribution shaped two different kinds of planets. The Inner […]

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Astronomers capture earliest stages of Planet formation around a baby star HOPS-315

Astronomers have detected the earliest stages of planet formation around a young star named HOPS-315, located 1,370 light-years away. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA telescopes in Chile, scientists observed solid particles forming in the gas disk surrounding this star, which is only 100,000 to 200,000 years old. […]