The Soot Line: Between fire and ice

There’s something I just love about knowing how these things work…

There's something I just love about knowing how these things work...

A schematic of a protoplanetary disk, showing the Soot and Frost Lines. For a star like the Sun, estimates put the Frost Line at around 2.7 AU, while Kress et al estimate the Soot Line to lie at around 2 AU – which seems a bit too far out to me, if I’m perfectly honest…

Original (unmanipulated) image by NASA/JPL-Caltech

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