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BETA PICTORIS: PLANETS? LIFE? OR WHAT? JARA ASTRONOMY 102 SEC 013 The ultimate question is; Is there a possibility that life might exist on a planet in the Beta Pictoris system? First, one must ask, Are there planets in the Beta Pictor ....

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... new stars are likely to be obscured by this envelope of gas and dust (1).” In 1967, Davidson and Harwit agreed with Poveda and then termed this occurrence, the “ cocoon nebula” (1). Other authors have referred to this occurrence as, a “ placental nebula” (1), noting that it sustains the growth of planetary bodies. For a long time, even before there was the term cocoon nebula, planetary scientists knew that a cocoon nebula had surrounded the sun, long ago, in order for our solar system to form and take on their currents motions (1). In 1755, a German, named Immanuel Kant, reasoned that “gravity would make circumsolar cloud cont ...