esahubble_opo0002b January 15th, 2000
Credit: NASA/ESA and Paul Kalas ( Space Telescope Science Institute)
The planetary dust disk around the star Beta Pictoris is dynamically 'ringing like a bell, ' according to astronomers investigating NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images. The 'clapper' is the gravitational wallop of a star that passed near Beta Pictoris some 100, 000 years ago.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0002b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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