NASAs Hubble sees a stunning planet-forming disk. Its a real doozy.
Astronomers have found a planet-forming disk that looks like a solar system on steroids.
New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single massive star or pair of stars about 1,000 light-years away in space. This thing spans nearly 400 billion miles — 40 times the width of everything around the sun, including the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt of comets.
The telescope has captured the system from its side profile...