Danger zones mapped for developing planets

For more information:
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11634

If stars incubating developing planets venture close to neighbours they risk having the raw materials needed for planet formation blown away.

Courtesy of NASA

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[dirtyreggae]

what the fuck was that

[newscientistvideo]

Hi dirtyreggae, it's a simulation of a star with planets forming around it. However the star gets too close to another star, and as a result all the planet-forming material gets blown away. Check the article link (right of the viewer) for the full story.

Michael Marshall, online editorial assistant

[AnotherProfit]

Well that's great, but we had to ask to find out.  Can't you make a vid longer and give some flowing details? It made no sense at all. lol

BTW, the NSci rocks.

[newscientistvideo]

Hi AnotherProfit, it's a fair point. :) We used to put up a lot of videos like this, and people used to complain about them, so we changed our practices.

These days pretty much everything we put up has a narration, or at least some simple captions to walk you through it. It's only on rare occasions (when something has to go up really quickly) that we'll now whack something up without a narration.

[ArcticDiaries]

What a great response, ;) I'm a subscriber (of the mag) and its good to see this great magazine rooting itself online.