... now, scientists had never found evidence of a surviving giant planet around a white dwarf. “It was one of those chance ...found in the deep atmospheric layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus Follow-up observations using the X-Shooter...
... today. Furthermore, a late gas accretion scenario is a more favourable and efficient method for accreting volatiles on a terrestrial planet than if it was bombarded my comets and meteorites, say the team - a situation that many think was responsible...
... should be able to see directly and more precisely how the dynamics of the gas contributes to the formation of planets, Boccaletti concludes. This research can be found in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal under the heading; “Possible evidence...
... greatly increase the stability of planetary configurations by preventing close encounters and collisions, identifying how and where planets like this form is a very important but as yet unanswered question in planetary science. As such, the TOI-178...