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Scientists Found A Baffling Object Around Vega, Our Stellar Neighbor
In 1984, the first debris disk orbiting another star was observed around Vega. Think of a debris disk as the leftovers from solar system formation, analogous to the asteroid or Kuiper belts.
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NASA's Hubble and Webb Revisit the Legendary Vega Disk. (IMAGE)
Caption [left] A Hubble Space Telescope false-color view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega. Hubble detects reflected light from dust that is the size of smoke ...