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Sowing the Seeds of Planets? Artist Concept
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About this work
This artist concept shows microscopic crystals in the dusty disk surrounding a brown dwarf, or failed star. The crystals, made up of a green mineral found on Earth called olivine, are thought to help seed the formation of planets.
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Credit lineSowing the Seeds of Planets? Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2005-10-20. Public domain. ID: PIA03048.
