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).
Credit:Gemini Observatory
About the Image
Id: | gemini0503a |
Type: | Collage |
Release date: | Jan. 13, 2005, 8 p.m. |
Related releases: | gemini0503 |
Size: | 3005 x 2254 px |
About the Object
Category: | Exoplanets |