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The article says we already knew that:

> astronomers knew disks of debris leftover from planet formation were common around newborn stars

The new result allows much more insight:

> only a few have been resolved in sufficient detail to study their internal structure. “This is the first time we can make a statistical analysis of what’s going on in these disks,



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