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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