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Born of fire and ice
1 Sept 2025
Barbara Ercolano studies how stars and planets can come into being and if life does inevitably arise as a consequence of the physical principles that govern the universe.
Some are infernally hot – hotter than the most common stars in our Galaxy. Others move so incredibly fast that their year lasts only a little over four hours. Still others get rained on – not by water, but by glass. And then there are the ones that, at least at first glance, are virtually indistinguishable from our Earth.