<ul><li>A new study led by Professor Paolo Padoan has found that stars' disks might grow bigger over time due to Bondi-Hoyle accretion, contrary to previous beliefs.</li><li>Stars, even after formation, can continue to pull in material from surrounding gas clouds, adding mass to their disks and helping them become larger and longer-lasting.</li><li>Powerful computer simulations and theoretical models were used to explore how stars interact with their surroundings, with a focus on how turbulence affects material gathering.</li><li>This discovery explains the large sizes of planet-forming disks observed in space, providing new insights into the formation of planets, including possibly habitable ones.</li></ul>

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