In the early solar system, a ‘protoplanetary disk’ of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today. A new study suggests that a mysterious gap existed within this disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the composition of the solar system’s infant planets.
Click here for original story, Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions
Source: ScienceDaily