New Planets Forming Around Star?

Do you think the Universe was created by a Big Bang?

	Yes.
	No. There is another explanation.
	We'll never know the answer.

	Written by SerenaStargazer
Saturday, 07 May 2005
A team of Spitzer Space Telescope astronomers have found that a brown dwarf star, OTS 44, is surrounded by a dust-rich cloud that appears still in the early stages of planet formation. OTS 44 is about 500 light-years way and has a mass of about 15 Jupiters. It is believed to have enough material to make one gas-giant planet and a handful of Earth-sized ones.

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