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# Acknowledgements

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Figure 1a: Mark McCaughrean (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), C. Robert O’Dell (Rice University), and NASA/ESA, https://esahubble.org/images/opo9545b/, released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 1b: NASA/ESA/CSA; Data reduction and analysis: PDRs4All ERS Team; Graphical processing: Fuenmayor, S. and Berne, O.

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Figure 3: Muller, A. et al. (2018) ‘Orbital and atmospheric characterization of the planet within the gap of the PDS 70 transition disk’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 617, pp. 11, EDP Sciences

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Figure 5: Armitage, P.J. (2017) ‘Lecture notes on the formation and early evolution of planetary systems’, V6, based on lectures given at the University of Colorado

Figure 6: Venturini, J., Ronco, M.P., Guilera, O.M. (2020) ‘Setting the stage: planet formation and volatile delivery’, Space Science Reviews, vol. 216 (5), article 86, Springer Science + Business Media

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Figure 8: Bohn, A.J. et al. (2021) ‘Discovery of a directly imaged planet to the young solar analog YSES 2’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 648, pp. 15, EDP Sciences

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