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).