... Beta Pic was found to be encircled by a nearly flat disk of dust, large enough to be resolved using ground based telescopes ... Worse, the disk of dust would enshroud any newly formed planets, making them impossible to see anyway. ...
... This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is ... parts of the disk and can puff them up, so that the outer parts of the disk aren't ...
... Do they form like stars, condensing out of clouds of gas and dust, or do they form like planets, slowly gathering mass from a disk of material around a 'real' star forming nearby? ...
... These colors (along with the grey disks in the middle of the sundial) can be used to ... The amount of dust in the air ruins the color balance as well. ... Even worse, dust scatters light. ...
... Our Galaxy, called the Milky Way, is a vast collection of gas, dust and about a half trillion stars. ... University, and her team found a dwarf satellite galaxy actually in the disk of ours, on the far side of the Milky Way (someone ...
... That means something nearby must be emitting IR, and the most common source of that is dust. ... Vega is also a young star, and young stars commonly have disks or clouds of material around them. these clouds are left over ...