Gas and Dust That Surrounds Star CI Tau (IMAGE)

Rice University

Gas and Dust That Surrounds Star CI Tau

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This false-color image from a sub-millimeter interferometric telescope shows the circumstellar disk of gas and dust that surrounds star CI Tau.

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Stephane Guilloteau/University of Bordeaux

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