New computer simulations put solar system in universal perspective
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 13:42
in Astronomy & Space
We don't have spacecraft to take us outside our solar system - not yet, at least. Still, astronomers thought they had a pretty good understanding of how our solar system formed and in turn, how others formed. In the last dozen years, nearly 300 exoplanets have been discovered. Are the solar systems in which they reside indeed like our own? Without knowledge or observations to the contrary, conventional knowledge said yes...
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