Giant Planets Could Form Around Tiny Stars in Just a Few Thousand Years

M-type (red dwarf) stars are cooler, low-mass, low-luminosity objects that make up the vast majority of stars in our Universe – accounting for 85% of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. In recent years, these stars have proven to be a treasure trove for exoplanet hunters, with multiple terrestrial (aka. Earth-like) planets confirmed around the Solar System’s nearest red dwarfs.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Giant Planets Could Form Around Tiny Stars in Just a Few Thousand Years

M-type (red dwarf) stars are cooler, low-mass, low-luminosity objects that make up the vast majority of stars in our Universe – accounting for 85% of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. In recent years, these stars have proven to be a treasure trove for exoplanet hunters, with multiple terrestrial (aka. Earth-like) planets confirmed around the Solar System’s nearest red dwarfs.

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Excellent. This confirms what mollwollfumble has been saying for several years. Hot Jupiters didn’t migrate inward, they formed in place, like binary stars.

mollwollfumble came to this conclusion when on studying Kepler data he noted that the distribution of the orbital diameters of hot Jupiters is a close match for the distribution of orbital diameters of binary stars.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Giant Planets Could Form Around Tiny Stars in Just a Few Thousand Years

M-type (red dwarf) stars are cooler, low-mass, low-luminosity objects that make up the vast majority of stars in our Universe – accounting for 85% of stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. In recent years, these stars have proven to be a treasure trove for exoplanet hunters, with multiple terrestrial (aka. Earth-like) planets confirmed around the Solar System’s nearest red dwarfs.

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Excellent. This confirms what mollwollfumble has been saying for several years. Hot Jupiters didn’t migrate inward, they formed in place, like binary stars.

mollwollfumble came to this conclusion when on studying Kepler data he noted that the distribution of the orbital diameters of hot Jupiters is a close match for the distribution of orbital diameters of binary stars.

Stars and planets in the very early stages on formation have a very definite plasma connection.