Scientists Gain a New Understanding of How Stars and Planets Form
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Scientists Gain a New Understanding of How Stars and Planets Form

As young stars form, they exert a powerful influence on their surroundings and create complex interactions between them and their environments. As they gobble up gas and dust, they generate a rotating disk of material. This protoplanetary disk is where planets form, and new research shows that stars can feed too quickly and end up regurgitating material back into the disk.