Finally, solid evidence on how planets form

[The Peon]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/04/05/supernova.blast.ap/index.html

 

This in perticular was always my personal speculation:

 

"It shows that planet formation is really ubiquitous in the universe. It's a very robust process and can happen in all sorts of unexpected environments," said lead researcher Deepto Chakrabarty, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."