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Snow in an Infant Planetary System


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Snow in an Infant Planetary System

A frosty landmark for planet and comet formation

A snow line has been imaged in a far-off infant planetary system for the very first time. The snow line, located in the disc around the Sun-like star TW Hydrae, promises to tell us more about the formation of planets and comets, the factors that decide their composition, and the history of the Solar System. The results are published today in Science Express.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have taken the first ever image of the snow line in an infant planetary system. On Earth, snow lines form at high altitudes where falling temperatures turn the moisture in the air into snow. This line is clearly visible on a mountain, where the snow-capped summit ends and the rocky face begins.

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oh wow thats very interesting thank you dwarf!

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that is... pretty remarkable, not something i'd heard of either

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that is... pretty remarkable, not something i'd heard of either

indeed thats why im so captivated by it, i too have not herd of this before! we share a common interest now pata

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