MSNBC.COM-SCIENCE wrote:A New Zealand man has become the first amateur astronomer to take a direct photograph of a solar system in the first stages of development. Rolf Olsen's stunning image shows Beta Pictoris, a bright young star in the southern hemisphere, surrounded by a "circumstellar disk" — a huge, flat cloud of swirling debris kicked up by a flurry of comet, asteroid and minor body collisions near the new star.
Amateur image of Beta Pictoris dust ring
Amateur image of Beta Pictoris dust ring
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