The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Timing and location of chondrule-forming impact. The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

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The process that formed the giant planet Jupiter may also have spawned some of the tiniest and oldest members of our solar system -- millimeter-sized spheres called chondrules, the major part of the ...

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