Sentences with phrase «debris disks seen»
Massive numbers of comets may even produce the bright debris disks seen around other stars.
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When he and his advisor simulated the early impact, they did not see a young Earth surrounded by a disk of debris.
Hubble also spied a dark gap dividing an even larger disk of debris around a star called HD 141569, the first such clearing seen within a disk.
«This discovery was puzzling since astronomers believe that this gas should be long gone by the time we see evidence of a debris disk,» he said.
So maybe this disk we saw is a kind of second - generation debris disk.
According to Akeson et al (2009), Denebola was first identified as having an circumstellar dust or «debris» disk from an excess of infrared radiation observed with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) in 1983 (Aumann and Probst, 1991, see G448.0, GL 448, or BS 4534).
«Typically, when astronomers see gaps like this in a debris disk, they suspect that a planet has cleared the path.