CANADA: This is the first discovery with the new cutting-edge Gemini instrument.Scientists have found a young planetary system which may enable them to understand what our own solar system looked like as ‘toddler’ billions of years ago.
Using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, an international team of astronomers, including University of Cambridge researchers, identified a disc-shaped bright ring of dust around a star only slightly more massive than the Sun, located 360 light-years away in the Centaurus constellation.
The disc is located between about 37 and 55 astronomical units (3.4 and 5.1 billion miles) from its host star, which is almost the same distance as the solar system’s Kuiper Belt is from the Sun. The brightness of the disc, which is due to the starlight reflected by it, is also consistent with a wide range of dust compositions including the silicates and ice present in the Kuiper Belt.
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