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Hubble Captures a Protoplanetary Disk

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the building-heavenly-bodies dept.

Astroturtle writes "The Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has captured a detailed image of spiral rings in a distant protoplanetary disk -- the pancake-shaped cloud of gas and dust around a young star in which planets are expected to condense. But contrary to earlier suggestions, the intricate structure of this particular disk is probably caused by a nearby companion star rather than by embedded planets starting to form."

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  1. Re:Offtopic, but with a good reason by nmg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What the fuck are you smoking? 90% of the people on Slashdot are communists. Just ask them what they think the government should do about Microsoft.