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How the Solar System Got Its ‘Great Divide’ and Why It Matters

Scientists, including those from CU Boulder, have finally scaled the Solar System’s equivalent of the Rocky Mountain range. In a study recently published in Nature Astronomy, researchers from the United States and Japan unveil the possible origins of our cosmic neighborhood’s “Great Divide.” This well-known schism may have separated the Solar System just after the Sun first ...

Troy Oakes

The planets orbiting the Sun.