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Disks encircling hypergiant stars may spawn planets in inhospitable environment
« on: February 08, 2006, 08:32:45 PM »
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The discovery of dusty disks--the building blocks of planets--around two of the most massive stars known suggests that planets might form and survive in surprisingly hostile environments.
This illustration compares the size of a gargantuan star and its surrounding dusty disk (top) to that of our solar system.
The discovery was made through

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Re: Disks encircling hypergiant stars may spawn planets in inhospitable environment
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2006, 08:56:48 AM »
That's amazing!  :D

I wonder if that star is really that big, and what the uncertainty is on that size.

One of a few papers on hypergiant stars - http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/meeting/talks/Zickgraf.pdf
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