Astronomers Study Distant Debris To Learn About Solar System
Credit: NASA/ESA/P. KALAS (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck telescope in Hawaii to study debris disks around distant stars believe a gigantic, lopsided, needle-shaped disk around a star designated HD 15115 holds clues to the formation of our Solar System. The Hubble imagery (above) also suggests that...
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