ALMA Fomalhaut Ring (IMAGE)
Caption
ALMA image of the debris disk in the Fomalhaut star system. The ring is approximately 20 billion kilometers from the central star and about 2 billion kilometers wide. The central dot is the unresolved emission from the star, which is about twice the mass of our sun.
Credit
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. MacGregor
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