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Nebular hypothesis

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Space has big clouds of dust.

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These clouds spin and get flat. They clump up to make stars. The clumps also make planets. This is how our home began. It is a big, busy job. Can you imagine space making a planet?

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SPHERE images a zoo of dusty discs around...
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Embedded Outflow in Herbig-Haro object HH...
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M42proplyds.jpg
Artist’s impression of the disc and gas...
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Fomalhaut Circumstellar Disk.jpg
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