In January, another team of researchers reported evidence of vast streams of gas flowing across a gap in a disk of material around a young star.

WSJ: Possible New Planet Spotted Under Formation

The conclusion: The tiny bright blob was an object still embedded in the disk of material around the parent star, suggesting a planet in the earliest stages of coming into being.

WSJ: Possible New Planet Spotted Under Formation

When the bottom disk is rotated the material between its holes exerts a tiny gravitational tug on the material between the holes of the top disk, causing it to rotate, albeit only by billionths of a degree.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

If our solar system's disk wasn't ionized, its material would not have been funneled onto the young sun's surface, researchers said.

MSN: Earth's hot formation may be reason behind water shortage

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