Comets around Beta Pictoris (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Comets around Beta Pictoris

Caption

Comets can be seen in this artistic depiction of the young star Beta Pictoris as seen from the outer edge of its disk.

Credit

NASA image by Lynette Cook.

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Please credit NASA and Lynette Cook.

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