Rogue's gallery of dusty star systems reveals exoplanet nurseries

ScienceDaily
Jun 24, 2020, 3:15 pm132 pts
The Gemini Planet Imager on the Gemini South telescope looked at 104 young, nearby stars, 10-100 million years old, in search of debris disks. It found 26, 25 of which had inner holes indicating a planet. These debris rings, similar to the Kuiper Belt in our solar system, display amazing diversity in size and…

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