• Question: Are planets formed by stars being born when the dense regions, in stellar clouds, cause a gravitational collapse ending in a rotating gas globule which collapses. This therefore spins faster due to the pressure and temperature increase making the globule to have a central core surrounded by a flattened disk of dusk. Does this 'flattened disk of dusk' end up creating planets over the 10,000 and 1,000,000 years period?

    Asked by bodhag to Nick on 13 Mar 2014.
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      Nick Wright answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Yes, this is how we think stars and planets form! Its quite a complex process (you did well to summarise it!) and people have been studying it for many years but I think now we’re getting really close to a theory that describes how both stars and planets form!

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