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How do jumbo planets such as Jupiter form? Astronomers may have caught one in a nearby solar system being born, offering an answer.
A pair of dusty filaments stretch more than 7.4 billion miles across the length of the solar system of nearby star HD14252, feeding a young planet's growth in a manner never seen before, report radio astronomers led by Simon Casassus of Chile's Universidad de Chile in Santiago.