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Newly Formed Solar System

xPsi writes "An article in New Scientist reports that a team of astronomers from UC Berkeley and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have used the Hubble space telescope to image a dust ring in orbit around Fomalhaut, a nearby star about 25 light years away. The ring 'offers the best evidence yet that a nearby star is circled by a newly formed solar system.' Oddly enough, from the Earth's vantage point, the ring also happens to resemble The Eye of Sauron. One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them..."

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  1. Re:WORST POST! by __aawfbm2023 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    EVER! (?)

  2. Not Sauron by Rational · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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