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Earlier in this book we took a look at how astronomers think the Solar System was formed from a rotating cloudlet that span into a disk, with the Sun formed at its central hub while the planets formed from rings of matter in the orbiting disk.
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North, G. (1997). Brown Dwarfs and Extra-solar Planets. In: Astronomy Explained. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0901-3_19
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