Joshua Sokol

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    A Close Look at Newborn Planets Reveals Hints of Infant Moons

    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Astronomers have spent decades, if not centuries, hoping to see embryonic planets. As of a year ago, the closest they had come was the discovery of gaps, thought to be caused by budding planets, in the spinning disks of gas and dust that surround young stars. But they weren’t […]