Planet ‘Survivor’: Astronomers Witness First Steps of Planet Growth – And Destruction. ‘Planet formation is a hazardous process. New pictures from the Hubble telescope are giving astronomers the first
direct visual evidence for the growth of planetary “building blocks” inside the dusty disks of young stars in the Orion
Nebula, a giant “star factory” near Earth. But these snapshots also reveal that the disks are being “blowtorched” by
a blistering flood of ultraviolet radiation from the region’s brightest star, making planet formation extremely difficult.’