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Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe
2024-06-15galaxy
In 2003, Hubble found evidence of a massive planet in our galaxy from a long-ago time when stars only had small amounts of heavy elements like iron and carbon - the building blocks of planets. How could this planet grow so massive in these conditions?
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