Gallery of Dust Disks (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Gallery of Dust Disks

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This figure shows the dust rings around young stars captured by the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey, or GPIES. The rings show a diversity of shapes and sizes, made more extreme by the different projections of the rings on the sky.

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UC Berkeley image by Thomas Esposito

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