Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions
In the early solar system, a ‘protoplanetary disk’ of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today. A new study suggests that a mysterious gap existed within this disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the composition of the solar system’s infant planets.
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