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Scientists Found A Baffling Object Around Vega, Our Stellar Neighbor
In 1984, the first debris disk orbiting another star was observed around Vega. Think of a debris disk as the leftovers from solar system formation, analogous to the asteroid or Kuiper belts.
High-resolution observations shed more light on a peculiar brown dwarf system
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...
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Debris Disks and Planetary Systems
A study analyzed 178 debris-disc systems and found that many of these disks likely require the presence of Neptune- to Saturn-mass planets at distances of 10 to 100 astronomical units (au ...
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The dusty debris disk surrounding the young star Fomalhau (IMAGE)
This image of the dusty debris disk surrounding the young star Fomalhaut is from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). It reveals three nested belts extending out to 14 billion miles (23 ...
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Webb discovers baffling ‘cat’s tail’ in Beta Pictoris
As Isabel Rebollido, lead author on the new research, explains, “Beta Pictoris is the debris disk that has it all: It has a really bright, close star that we can study very well, and a complex ...
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Webb Telescope Finds An Asteroid Belt And Evidence Of Planets Around Close ‘Royal Star’ Fomalhaut
The architecture of the Fomalhaut debris disk system. We highlight the various features identified ... [+] in the JWST/MIRI observations of the Fomalhaut system in this 25.5 μm image.
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High-resolution observations shed more light on a peculiar brown dwarf system
HD 206893 is orbited by two exoplanets and also hosts a circumstellar debris disk extending from about 30 to 180 AU from the star. HD 206893 B, estimated to be 26 times more massive than Jupiter ...