Study sheds light on the feeding habits of young stars

According to new research, young stars may gain mass by consuming dense clumps of matter that may themselves have gone on to evolve into giant planets. The clumps are believed to be devoured by a star periodically, with intervals of several thousand years between “meals.” During periods of brightness following the consumption of one of the cosmic clumps, astronomers estimate that a star could burn up the equivalent of the Earth’s mass once every 10 days.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Study sheds light on the feeding habits of young stars

According to new research, young stars may gain mass by consuming dense clumps of matter that may themselves have gone on to evolve into giant planets. The clumps are believed to be devoured by a star periodically, with intervals of several thousand years between “meals.” During periods of brightness following the consumption of one of the cosmic clumps, astronomers estimate that a star could burn up the equivalent of the Earth’s mass once every 10 days.

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Actually, this supports what I’ve been saying for a few months, that some planets evolve directly from there action of knots in gas, rather than all of them accumulating slowly from collisions between grains of dust and ice.