Dusty Old Star Offers Window to Our Future, Astronomers Report
Artist's visualization of what a dust disk might look like around the white dwarf GD 362. A more distant planet (shown at upper left) might be responsible for "shepherding" the dust ring and promoting ongoing collisions.
Credit:Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA/J. Lomberg
About the Image
| Id: | gemini0510a |
| Type: | Artwork |
| Release date: | Sept. 8, 2005, 8 p.m. |
| Related releases: | gemini0510 |
| Size: | 3300 x 2475 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Stars |
