Thursday 19 February 2015

Hubble gets best view of a circumstellar debris disk distorted by a planet

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Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. The new image traces the disk in closer to the star to within about 650 million miles of the star.

via Science Daily

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