Simulated Images of the Ancient Kuiper Belt (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Simulated Images of the Ancient Kuiper Belt

Caption

Simulated images of the ancient Kuiper Belt bear a striking resemblance to this Hubble Space Telescope view of the dusty ring around Fomalhaut, a young star located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. In 2008, Hubble spotted a planet orbiting inside the ring. The bright central star is masked out so that the faint ring can be seen.

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NASA/ESA/P. Kalas (Univ. of California, Berkeley) et al.

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