The Earth formed much faster than previously thought
Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 11:50
in Astronomy & Space
The precursor of our planet, the proto-Earth, formed within a time span of approximately five million years, shows a new study from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation (StarPlan) at the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen. On an astronomical scale, this is extremely fast, the researchers explain. We start from dust, essentially. Millimetre-sized objects, all coming […]