How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
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New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back 4.6 billion years to the formation of the sun, revealing the role magnetism played in the birth of the solar system.
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