12. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
... 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. ...
16. http://www.princetonastronomy.org/newsletters/07_2010sidereal.pdf
... Meet the Titans: Dust Disk Found Around Massive Star A new discovery has the ... result: the discovery of a massive disk of dust and gas encircling the giant young ... polar regions, just as we see with smaller stars and their dust disks," Kraus said ...
17. NICMOS Coronagraphic Surveys-Preliminary Results
... to stars in the solar neighborhood, and circumstellar dust disks around main sequence stars by direct coronagraphic imaging has ... The 18 candidate stars in the search for circumstellar dust disks (7233) are primarily main sequence stars with IRAS IR ...
18. Summary
... by assuming that the optically unseen secondary is a disk of gas and dust which is in centrifugal balance in the radial ... demonstrates that the Aurig? disk is well-modeled by a gas/dust disk with a scale height at its outer edge that is 3% of the ...
19. http://www.aaa.org/s932/images/09fallclass2.pdf
... Direct Imaging * Circumstellar disks: Disks of space dust surround many stars, and this dust can be detected because it absorbs ... Features in dust disks may suggest the presence of planets. ...
20. New LBV Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy
... Therefore they cannot change their brightness but have instead strong disk-like dust envelopes. ... In the B[e]-supergiants strong infrared excesses are observed because of the presence of disk-like dust envelopes. ...