Long before planets formed in the solar system, 수원컴퓨터수리 the Sun had rings, similar to those around Saturn, and they may have stopped Earth getting any bigger, study claims.

These rings have been seen around a number of Sun-like young, distant stars, 수원컴퓨터수리 according to astronomers from Rice University in Houston, .

Made up of bands of dust and gas, they likely orbited the young Sun and played a role int he formation of the Earth, 수원컴퓨터수리 potentially stopping it growing into a type of world known as a ‘Super Earth’ that has been found in 30 per cent of star systems. 

‘In the solar system, 수원컴퓨터수리 something happened to prevent the Earth from growing to become a much larger type of terrestrial planet,’ said author André Izidoro. 

Izidoro and colleagues used a supercomputer to simulate the solar system’s formation hundreds of times, to better understand how it came to be. 

Their model produced rings and faithfully reproduced several features of the solar system missed by many previous models, but required rings around the young sun.

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