"We wanted to extend, for the first time, the calculations for the formation of water-rich moons around gas giants beyond the Jupiter mass regime," said lead author René Heller, a postdoctoral fellow in astrophysics at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Get the Space.com Newsletter Breaki...
should easily form around solar-type stars through the core-accretion mechanism8,9,10and that the final semi-major axis distribution should be a consequence of the position of the ice line9, only partially modified by migration11. Jupiter-like planets should therefore be common. On the other h...
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Established in 1910, Hillsborough's population more than tripled over the next few decades as the large, sprawling estates of wealthy gold rushers were subdivided. To preserve a spacious, rural feel, the town has mandated a minimum lot size of one-half acre since 1953. It is close to the...