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Fomalhaut b – A Planet Or A Dust Cloud?
Saturday, January 28, 2012 13:04
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MessageToEagle.com – Has Hubble Space Telescope made a mistake or is Spitzer Space Telescope in error? Is Fomalhaut b a planet or a dust cloud?
New observations suggest this question will probably be debated for a while from now on.
Some years ago Hubble took an image of a planet circling another star. The planet is called Fomalhaut b and it orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish).
Astronomers have long suspected there might be a planet in the region…. Rest of article here:
