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Apr 17, 2008 18 min

Underreported: New Planet Forming?

from Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show Hosted by New York Public Radio, WNYC

Scientists may be closer to understanding how new planets form. Astrophysicist Ben Oppenheimer of the American Museum of Natural History and his colleagues at the Lyot Project have put together an image of material that seems to be coalescing into either a planet or a brown dwarf (which is an object with mass that neither a star nor a planet).

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