ALMA View of Dust Ring around Fomalhaut (IMAGE)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

ALMA View of Dust Ring around Fomalhaut

Caption

This image shows the narrow dust ring around Fomalhaut. Yellow at top is the ALMA image, and the blue at bottom is Hubble Space Telescope image. The star is at the location of the bright emission at the center of the ring.

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A.C. Boley (University of Florida, Sagan Fellow), M.J. Payne, E.B. Ford, MShabran (University of Florida), S. Corder (North American ALMA Science Center, National Radio Astronomy Observatory), and W. Dent (ALMA, Chile), NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, ESA, P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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