From Washington, D.C., at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society
The raw material for planets comes from disks of gas, dust, and ice particles that form around young stars. According to one leading theory, planets arise when diffuse, cold material within a disk collides and sticks together, gradually building boulder- and house-size objects into larger and larger bodies that slowly become planets.
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