RZ Piscium (IMAGE)

Indiana University

RZ Piscium

Caption

This illustration shows a "disrupted planet" slowly broken up into a cloud of gas and dust as it orbits the star RZ Piscium about 550 light years from Earth.

Credit

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

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