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NASA. /Notes/ Formation of Planets. NASA. The story so far:. NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Noriega-Crespo (SSC/Caltech), Digital Sky Survey. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UIUC. http://www.redorbit.com/modules/reflib/article_images/6_a1ae8ebf66110513af3385295f837b59.jpg. Protoplanetary disk. NASA.
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NASA /Notes/ Formation of Planets
NASA The story so far:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Noriega-Crespo (SSC/Caltech), Digital Sky Survey
http://www.redorbit.com/modules/reflib/article_images/6_a1ae8ebf66110513af3385295f837b59.jpg
Protoplanetary disk NASA Gas and dust left over from the formation of a star.
http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~masset/movies/flyby.png Gravity Begins pulling together bits of rock and gas
Planetesimals NASA Baby planets NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
NASA Planetesimals
NASA They’re violent
NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC) Planets form Planetesimals collide and grow larger until they become planets