spitzer_sig05-009 July 18th, 2005
Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
Astronomers were surprised to discover a 25-million-year-old protoplanetary disk around a pair of red dwarf stars 350 light-years away. Gravitational stirring by the binary star system (shown in this artist's conception) may have prevented planet formation.
Provider: Spitzer Space Telescope
Image Source: https://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image/sig05-009-disk-around-red-dward-stars-in-the-stephenson-34-system
Curator: Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, CA, USA
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