WIRED ScienceThese Spinning Disks of Gas and Dust Reveal How Planets Get Made
Published Jun 4, 2018, 4:11 PM
Over the past two and half centuries, scientists envisioning the origin of planetary systems (including our own) have focused on a specific scene: a spinning disk around a newborn star, sculpting planets out of gas and dust like clay on a potter’s wheel. But as for testing the idea, by actually spotting an exoplanet coalesce from swirling matter? No luck yet.
