Dusting for Clues: Gemini Discovers Evidence for Colliding Bodies in Planet Forming Disk

Medium view illustration of Beta Pictoris showing bright area where collision is suspcted.

Credit:

Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA/J. Lomberg

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Id:gemini0503i
Type:Artwork
Release date:Jan. 13, 2005, 8 p.m.
Related releases:gemini0503
Size:1800 x 1200 px

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Category:Solar System

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