Planet’s dusty disk mirrors origins of Jupiter’s moons

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A ‘circumplanetary disk’ of gas and dust that’s a lot like the one scientists think made Jupiter’s moons surrounds the distant planet PDS 70 c.

 

Astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust similar to the one that scientists believe birthed the moons of Jupiter.

Source: Planet’s dusty disk mirrors origins of Jupiter’s moons – Futurity

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