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Super Jupiters can grow like planets after all

One way gas giants form is through core accretion, where solid cores gradually grow in a disk by pulling in rocky and icy pebbles until they become massive enough to attract the gas that surrounds young stars. Credit: Jean-Baptiste Ruffio

There’s a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still feel familiar. For decades, astronomers have argued about how super Jupiters, giant planets several times more massive than Jupiter and orbiting far from their stars, come into existence. Are they really planets at all? Or […]

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