Earth Isn't Flat, But New Theory Suggests Jupiter Might Once Have Been
The formation of planets might not always go the way we picture it in our heads.
Source: sciencealert.com
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The formation of planets might not always go the way we picture it in our heads.
Supercomputer simulations show that some planets form as oblate spheroids rather than spheres. Now if we could only see some and confirm it.
Astrophysicists at UCLan challenge planetary formation norms and reveal young planets' flatness through the disk-instability model, impacting core accretion theory.