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When astronomers began spotting planets around distant stars in the mid-1990s, they were baffled. Many of these early discoveries involved worlds as big as Jupiter or even bigger - but they orbited their stars so tightly that their "years" were just days long. Nobody could imagine how a Jupiter or anything like it could form in such a hostile location, where the radiation of the parent star would have pushed the light gas - which makes up most of such a planet's mass - out to the farthest reaches of the solar system before it could ever coalesce...
...proto-planets are fixed in their permanent orbits. Exactly where those orbits lie depends on all sorts of factors peculiar to a given planetary system - how much material there is in the original proto-planetary disk, how much of that is dust and how much is gas, how big the dust grains are, how hot the star is and more. That's one reason we should expect each solar system to look a little bit different. Which, as it turns out, they...
Dartmouth’s 46 points represented the lowest offensive output against the Crimson this season. Harvard limited the Big Green (3-11, 0-1 Ivy) to 34.5 percent shooting from the field and 25.0 percent shooting from three, while yielding only ten free-throws...
...big man finished with his career-best 22 points on 11-of-16 shooting, pacing the Harvard offense on a night when it scored 50 points in the paint...
...Crimson’s depth paid big dividends as Harvard got a boost from its bench throughout the night...