An MIT study suggests that a mysterious gap existed within the solar system’s protoplanetary disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the composition of the solar system’s planets. This image shows an artist’s interpretation of a protoplanetary disk. Credit: National Science Foundation, A. Khan
Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions.
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