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Planets orbiting star Fomalhaut

author: Ron Miller/Novapix

reference: a-exo01-00023

Image Size 300 DPI: 44 * 22 cm

This illustration shows the discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting its sun, Fomalhaut. This structure is a Saturn-like ring that astronomers say may encircle the planet. Fomalhaut also is surrounded by a ring of material. Fomalhaut b lies three billion kilometres inside the disk's inner edge. The planet completes an orbit around Fomalhaut every 872 years.

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2008 - ASTRONOMY - DISK - DUST - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - FOMALHAUT - FOMALHAUT B - ILLUSTRATION - PISCIS AUSTRINUS - PLANET - PROTOPLANETARY DISK - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - STAR -