DescriptionDusty Old Star Offers Window to Our Future, Astronomers Report (gemini0510a).jpg
English: Artist's visualization of what a dust disk might look like around the white dwarf GD 362. A more distant planet (shown at upper left) might be responsible for "shepherding" the dust ring and promoting ongoing collisions.
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Artist's visualization of what a dust disk might look like around the white dwarf GD 362. A more distant planet (shown at upper left) might be responsible for "shepherding" the dust ring and promoting ongoing collisions.
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Image title
Artist's visualization of what a dust disk might look like around the white dwarf GD 362. A more distant planet (shown at upper left) might be responsible for "shepherding" the dust ring and promoting ongoing collisions.
Credit/Provider
Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA/J. Lomberg
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NSF's NOIRLab
Short title
Dusty Old Star Offers Window to Our Future, Astronomers Report
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