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Thursday, June 30, 2005

 

A ring of comets?



The Hubble Space Telescope has seen a dusty ring around the star Fomalhaut using Hubble’s coronagraph. Astronomers think this ring may be due to collisions in a ring of cometary material around the star, and the shape of the ring sugggests planets are sweeping the dust up.

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