Meaning of snow line | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The altitude, in a mountainous region, above which the ground is covered with snow, at any particular time.
2. The inner limit where volatile molecules can remain frozen in the zone around a star.
3. The limit for water remaining solid instead of evaporating away under solar radiation.
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“Chris Ormel, an astronomer at the University of Amsterdam, and his colleagues recently calculated that protoplanets began to form⟳ at the snow⟳ line around the star, then grew quickly by accreting pebbles.”

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