Scientists discover that stars and planets may be siblings in latest study

Scientists in its latest study have discovered that planets begin forming while stars are still infants and y grow up toger like siblings.  new study conducted by  Centre of Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), revealed that planet formation in a star system is younger than 500,000 years old. new study has a marked difference from previously accepted ories of planet formation as it indicates that stars and planets grow up toger like siblings.

Prior to study, rings of dust have been detected in great numbers in systems older than one million years. During this time scientists assumed that stars are well into adulthood before planets to begin to form. However, this was t case as observations of IRS 63 -a young protostar located 470 light-years from Earth, deep within  dense LI709 interstellar cloud in constellation Ophiuchus revealed that at less than half of or young stars with dust rings and younger than 500,000 years old IRS 63 has a long way to go in garing mass and by w  planets have already begun to form.

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Ian Stephens astromer at CfA said that y observed young protoplanetary disk called IRS 63 and found gaps and rings within disk, which is indicative of planet formation. "Traditionally, it was thought that a star does most of its formation before planets form, but our observations showed that y form simultaneously", he added.

Dominique Segura-Cox, lead author and a scientist at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany said rings in disk around IRS 63 are 'so young'. "We used to have this idea that stars entered adulthood first and were mors of planets that came afterward, but w we see that protostars and planets grow and evolve toger from early times like siblings", he said.

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observations of scientist furr revealed implications for understanding formation of  solar system. According to scientists, it takes at least 10 Earth masses of solid material to form a planet core capable of accreting eugh gas to form a gas giant. Furr while researching IRS 63 scientists found that young disk contains roughly 150 Earth masses of dust and material. 

scientists are furr learning a lot about early formation of planets, including those in our own solar system along with paired with rings and gaps present in disk. Stephens added that  rings and gaps suggest that we are seeing earliest evidence of planet formation and that planets certainly start to form within first half million years and probably within first 1,50,000 years. Planets, especially planets like Jupiter, started ir own formation at one of earliest sts of  star formation process, he said.

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(With inputs from ANI)