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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:Nics pics. by drizuid · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't think the picture is very good at all.. My first though was that I could make it in photoshop. What's to tell me they didn't. The whole report on it is also just assumption, they write 2 pages on what it is, so next week when they figure out they were wrong, they can revise it. Then everyone who read the first report and misses the revision can walk around being stupid by knowing false information.