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Jul 29th: When Exactly Do We Celebrate Planet Birthdays?
Just how young can a proto-planetary disk be and be forming planets? Proto-planetary discs only exist for a few million years, which means that all planet formation in the system must take place within this, uh, narrow time frame.
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