Image Shows a Humongous Amount of Dust, Revealing How Planets Form | Discover Magazine
Planets form from dust and gas. But how, exactly? Under the more popular accretion model, they accrete over millions of years as one particle collides with another.
Under the not-so-popular gravitational instability model, something more decisive occurs. Dust and fragments gather in an area until they undergo a kind of gravitational collapse.
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