Joe Carson, an astrophysicist at the College of Charleston and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and lead author of the paper describing the discovery, says that the most exciting part of the discovery is that κ Andromedae “is by far the most massive star where we see evidence of normal planet formation—the kind that went on in our solar system.”
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