How planets like Jupiter form
Young giant planets are born from gas and dust. Researchers of ETH Zürich and the Universities of Zürich and Bern simulated different scenarios relying on the computing power of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to find out how they exactly form and evolve. They compared their results with observations and were able to show amongst others a big difference between the postulated formation mechanisms.
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Gravitational instability simulation: Two snapshots in the early and late stage of the simulation at 780 years and 1942 years. The second snapshot shows only 4 clumps remaining among those initially formed. Credit: Lucio Mayer & T. Quinn, ChaNGa code
