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Some Young Planets Are Flattened Smarties, not Spheres.


One of contemporary astronomy's most pressing questions concerns planet formation. We can see more deeply than ever into very young solar systems where planets are taking shape in the disks around young stars.

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Some Young Planets Are Flattened Smarties, not Spheres.