Gas-And-Dust Disk Encircling the 20-Million Year-Old Star Beta Pictoris (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Gas-And-Dust Disk Encircling the 20-Million Year-Old Star Beta Pictoris

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The 2012 image (bottom) is the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million year-old star Beta Pictoris. The 1997 Hubble image (top) shows the disk's dust distribution has barely changed over 15 years.

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NASA, ESA, University of Arizona

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