ALMA Fomalhaut Ring (IMAGE)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

ALMA Fomalhaut Ring

Caption

ALMA image of the debris disk in the Fomalhaut star system. The ring is approximately 20 billion kilometers from the central star and about 2 billion kilometers wide. The central dot is the unresolved emission from the star, which is about twice the mass of our sun.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. MacGregor

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