Artist image of the four stages of planetary disk formation connected by dust: a molecular cloud, a proto-star (which kinda looks like a sunny-side-up egg with dust around it), a protoplanetary disk (which looks like just an egg sunny side up), and finally a planetary system (which looks like our solar system). Attribution: Bill Saxton, NSF/AUI/NRAO
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