Word: stefanik
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What the data may be saying is simply that the dividing line between stars and planets may be less distinct than astronomers had believed. "Everything found so far poses challenging questions for planetary formation theory," says astronomer Robert Stefanik, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. That was underscored last week when, after weeks of government shutdown, results were released from a NASA experiment much closer to home. The probe's plunge from the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter's atmosphere showed that the planet has higher winds, less lightning, less water, helium and neon, and--at the point of impact...