Science Ka Adda | Episode 04: Exploring Baby Solar Systems to Search Our Own Origins

How did planets in our solar system form? In this episode of Science ka Adda (SkA), Salman Hameed talks about the discovery of a “protoplanetary disk” around a young star named HL Tau. This star is only a million years old – a blink of an eye in cosmic timescales – but it can tell us a lot about the origins of our own solar system some four and a half billion years ago.