Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Astronomical Forensics Uncover Planetary Disks in NASA's Hubble Archive

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Astronomical Forensics Uncover Planetary Disks in NASA's Hubble Archive
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2014 - Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around young stars in the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes database. These disks are telltale evidence for newly formed planets. If astronomers initially miss something in their review of data, they can make new discoveries ... more


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