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The Sun’s Place in the Solar System

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An artist’s conception of a newborn planet embedded in the dust around a young star (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt).

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Brekke, P. (2012). The Sun’s Place in the Solar System. In: Our Explosive Sun. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0571-9_2

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