Friday, April 25, 2014

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


Astronomical forensics uncover planetary disks in NASA's Hubble archive

Posted: 24 Apr 2014 11:09 AM PDT

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around young stars in the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes database. These disks are telltale evidence for newly formed planets.

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