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The universe beyond our solar system just got wilder.
Astronomers meeting in Colorado this week said they have found a disk
of planet-building material around a small, failed star called a
brown dwarf. The discovery raises
Robert quoth:
Kuchner said the galaxy is becoming richer in carbon as it gets older.
It may become so carbon rich that all planets formed in the future
may be carbon planets, he said. Just wait a couple of billion
years.
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