Is a Miniature Solar System Being Born?

[Astronuc]

Possible Miniature Solar System Discovered

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the birth of the smallest known solar system. Peering through ground- and space-based telescopes, scientists observed a brown dwarf — or failed star — less than one hundredth the mass of the sun surrounded by what appears to be a disk of dust and gas.

The brown dwarf — located 500 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon — appears to be undergoing a planet-forming process that could one day yield a solar system, said Kevin Luhman of Pennsylvania State University, who led the discovery.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051130/ap_on_sc/tiny_solar_system;_ylt=AkzJivxvW0DGRbs1ZW0JAzRxieAA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NmhocGZ1BHNlYwMxNzAw

 

[franznietzsche]

Possible Miniature Solar System Discovered
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051130/ap_on_sc/tiny_solar_system;_ylt=AkzJivxvW0DGRbs1ZW0JAzRxieAA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NmhocGZ1BHNlYwMxNzAw

Its going to be a very cold system with a "star" that fails to attain fusion (and thus, isn't really a star). In fact, that's only about ten times the mass of Jupiter.

 

[mars2]

yes,compared with our solar system .

 

[Danger]

I think that I just figured out where Pengwino is from...