Friday, July 20, 2012

How did an entire star system's worth of dust just vanish? Scientists baffled

How did an entire star system's worth of dust just vanish? Scientists baffled
July 5, 2012 - Christian Science Monitor
In a cosmic case of "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't," a brilliant disk of dust around a Sun-like star has suddenly vanished, and the scientists who observed the disappearance aren't sure about what happened.
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An image taken May 1 by the Gemini observatory at La Serena, Chile, confirmed that the disk was gone.
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