Oldest Known Planet-Forming Disk (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Oldest Known Planet-Forming Disk

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An artist's conception of this unusual system, a red dwarf star surrounded by the oldest known circumstellar disk -- a primordial ring of gas and dust that orbits around a young star and from which planets can form as the material collides and aggregates.

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Jonathan Holden/Disk Detective https://www.artstation.com/artist/gethralkin

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