Orion rocks! Pebble-size particles may jump-start planet formation
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 - 16:01
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have discovered that filaments of star-forming gas near the Orion Nebula may be brimming with pebble-size particles -- planetary building blocks 100 to 1,000 times larger than the dust grains typically found around protostars.