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A star 33 light-years away may be giving birth to new planets, and we are close enough to see it happen, astronomers said Thursday. Using a telescope on a mountain in Hawaii, they have seen evidence of a disk of dust orbiting the star–a disk like the one our solar system is believed to have formed from. And within the disk is a clear swath, suggesting a planet has started to form.
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Compiled from RedEye news services and edited by Lara Weber (lweber@tribune.com) and Drew Sottardi (dsottardi@tribune.com)
