On July 6, 2004, a team of astronomers (including Jane Greaves, Mark Wyatt, Wayne Holland, and William Dent) using the
Submillimetre Common - User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at the Joint Astronomy Center on the Big Island of Hawaii announced that they had
detected a large and relatively dense, cold dust disk around Tau Ceti (RAS press release; and (Greaves et al, 2004).
The top panel shows compact sources of
submillimetre radiation
detected by APEX as part of the ATLASGAL survey, combined with complementary data from ESA's Planck satellite, to capture more extended features.