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new planets

plural noun

  1. the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently

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Since the environments in such disks set the conditions in which new planets form, any such planet may be rocky but quite unlike Earth in other aspects.

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A related survey paper authored by UCR graduate student Michelle Hill announces the discovery of two new planets orbiting a star like our sun.

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While no new planets were detected in the disk during the most recent observations, the sensitivity is groundbreaking, the researchers say, as it allows them to place the most stringent constraints yet on the suspected planets.

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You were either going to have to add new planets or subtract things that are no longer planets.

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They encompass processes in the gas and dust disks surrounding young stars that give rise to new planets.

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