Disk Patterns Form Without Planets
This image shows the dust density and the growth of structure in a simulated disk, which extends about 100 times farther from its star than Earth orbit around the sun.
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NASA ID
PIA17249
Date Created
July 12, 2013
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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