No planets needed: NASA study shows disk patterns can self-generate

On: January 11, 2018

When exoplanet scientists first spotted patterns in disks of dust and gas around young stars, they thought newly formed planets might be the cause. But a recent NASA study cautions that there may be another explanation—one that doesn’t involve planets at all.

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