developed a computer model to study our solar system, Alpha Centauri and the interstellar activity—the movement of gas, dust and other space materials—between the two, side by side within our ...

Open the Youtube video Despite the outcomes from the model ... of the mechanisms by which material could be transferred from Alpha Centauri to the Solar System not only deepens our knowledge ...

Giant planets can take shape in two ways: by slowly building solid cores that attract gas, like our solar system, or by rapidly collapsing from a young star's cooling disk into massive objects.