Beta Pictoris remains the only directly imaged debris disk that has a giant planet (discovered in 2009) with an orbital period short enough (estimated to be between 18 and 22 years) that astronomers can see large motion in just a few years. This allows scientists to study how the Beta Pictoris disk is distorted by the presence of a massive planet embedded within the disk.
Please join +Tony Darnell, Dr. +Carol Christian and +Scott Lewis as they discuss new visible-light Hubble images that traces the disk in closer to the star to within about 650 million miles of the star with the astronomers who made the observations.
Read more here:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/06/
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Bring your questions and comments and we’ll read them on air throughout the hangout!
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