• Question: How was each planet made, and why are they all so different and unique?

    Asked by tape1vac on 8 Mar 2024.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 8 Mar 2024:


      The planet is our Solar System condensed from a swirling cloud of cold dust and ice heated in the centre by the young Sun. We can see this happening today with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes when we look at remote star systems… See https://almascience.eso.org/alma-science/planet-forming-disks. The vary in size etc. due to where they form in relation to the star and the temperatures in the region in which they form.

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