In the real disk, astronomers report a similar clearing out of large debris close to the star. (sciencedaily.com)
The difficult search continued throughout the weekend, hampered by the river's strong current and large debris field. (news.wbfo.org)
The problem with this interpretation was that such collision events would create large debris disks which would glow brightly in the infrared, yet previous searches with NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, had found no such excess infrared emission from KIC 8462852. (americaspace.com)