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dioxol-5-yl t1_it5p0nb wrote

They really know how to sell an image far above and beyond any science that it may or may not contain. It also might not be a solar system at all, but we'll never be able to tell because to us this process will remain stationary in time, never knowing what it may or may not ultimately form. The whole mystical ooohhhhh maybe it's got their own versions of jupiter and saturn and life on the third rock from the moon... Ugh, it's so unscientific to blindly assume that it could or would be anything like our solar system at this point that it's sickening.

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lifeontheQtrain t1_it5ss1q wrote

They aren't saying that it is a solar system. They're saying that it is a protoplanetary disc around a 1 million year old star. You didn't read the article very well.

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