... Old Planetary DustDisks Found by SST . Illustration Credit: T. Pyle ( SSC, Caltech ), JPL , Caltech , NASA . ... on the order of one million years old, have large dustdisks , while relatively older stars, between 10 and 100 million years ...
... 2014 November 17 . The Double DustDisks of HD 95086 . Illustration Credit: Spitzer Space Telescope , JPL , NASA . ... carrying out detailed observations of nearby stars in infrared light to see which have dustdisks that might be forming planets ...
... June 22, 1998 . The Doomed DustDisk of NGC 7052 . Credit: R. P. van der Marel ( STScI ) et al., WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . Explanation: What created the dustdisk in the center of NGC 7052, and what keeps it spinning? ...
... 2002 October 11 . Fomalhaut DustDisk Indicates Planets . Drawing Credit: David A. Hardy , ROE , ATC , NSF , NASA . ... light with a detector cooled to near zero kelvins indicate a dustdisk surrounding Fomalhaut that has both a hole in the center ...
... At left, the dark gap seen in the dustdisk is reminiscent of a similar large gap in Saturn's rings believed to be sculpted by ... By analogy, the gap in the dustdisk of HD 141569 may be a larger scale result of unseen orbiting planets. ...
... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . Explanation: An unusual dustdisk surrounds nearby star Beta Pictoris . ... images and computer simulations indicate that the disk contains several elliptical dust rings larger than our own Solar System ...
... Beta Pic is surrounded by a disk of dust which we view nearly edge-on. ... The dustdisk shines by reflected starlight and has been examined with ever increasing detail to search for signs of planetary ...