Dusting for Clues: Gemini Discovers Evidence for Colliding Bodies in Planet Forming Disk

Gemini mid-infrared images of Beta Pictoris as obtained with T-ReCS on Gemini South. Differences in the shape and strength of dust emissions within the disk can be seen as the observed wavelength changes. Note: The clump where the suspected collision occurred is to the right of the central white core at a distance of 52 Astronomical Units (AU).

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Gemini Observatory

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Id:gemini0503a
Type:Collage
Release date:Jan. 13, 2005, 8 p.m.
Related releases:gemini0503
Size:3005 x 2254 px

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Category:Exoplanets

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