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A recent study presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2023 (NAM2023) examines a newly discovered planetary formation theory that challenges previous notions on how planets are formed in the disks of gas and dust surrounding young stars, also known as protoplanetary disks. Along with being presented at NAM2023, the study has also been submitted for peer-review to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and holds the potential to help scientists better understand not only how planets form, but how life could form on them, as well.

Based on data from observations and models, the researchers determined that two large protoplanets—planets that are still forming from gathering dust throughout the disk, also known as accretion—orbiting at an indeterminate distance from each other can produce a smaller planet orbiting between them, which the researchers refer to as “sandwiched planet formation”.