Asteroid Ripped Apart to Form Star's Glowing Ring System (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

University of Warwick

Asteroid Ripped Apart to Form Star's Glowing Ring System (3 of 3)

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This image of the debris disk around SDSS1228+1040 made from observations taken over twelve years. The application of Doppler Tomography results in an image of the velocities within the disk, which has an 'inside-out' structure, gas closer to the white dwarf appears further. The two dashed circles illustrated 0.64 and 0.2 times the radius of the Sun.

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