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Protoplanetary Disk

Published: December 7, 2022

This visualization shows the evolution of a young, isolated protoplanetary disk over 16,000 years, including the start of planetary formation. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Advanced Visualization Laboratoy at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, A. Boley, A. Kritsuk and M. Norman

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