The border between stars and planets become more uncertain

With the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State University) discovered a small object, whose opening has made the border between stars and planets are more fragile and raising questions on the definition of planets outside our solar system. Oh, everything is going to ensure that the definition of planet, so painstakingly worked out recently by astronomers, would again have to revise.

7 September 2006 | border, identification, object, opening, planet, star, system, telescope, university

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