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One involves a planet that appears to be orbiting just inside a giant ring of gas that encircles a star known as Formalhaut, a mere 25 light-years from Earth.
NPR Topics: News 2008
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One involves a planet that appears to be orbiting just inside a giant ring of gas that encircles a star known as Formalhaut, a mere 25 light-years from Earth.
NPR Topics: News 2008
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The planet, dubbed Formalhaut b, is a gas giant that is much bigger than Jupiter and apparently is surrounded by rings of its own.
NPR Topics: News 2008
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The planet, dubbed Formalhaut b, is a gas giant that is much bigger than Jupiter and apparently is surrounded by rings of its own.
NPR Topics: News 2008
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The small white box at lower right pinpoints the planet Artist rendering/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images IMAGINING SPACE: Thursday, an artist released this concept of the star Fomalhaut and the Jupiter-type planet, Formalhaut b, that the Hubble Space Telescope observed.
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Star, Formalhaut, perhaps, Aldebaran, Altaïr: while great Heroes and Princes were more splendidly attended, and marched out to their forgotten battles with troops and armies of heavenly
Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907
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Formalhaut B using visible light, from 25 light-years away.
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As stars go, Formalhaut is quite interesting enough on its own.
Universe Today 2009
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Formalhaut b sits in a vast dust belt orbiting its star.
NPR Topics: News 2008
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Formalhaut b, an extrasolar planet some 25 light-years away, was discovered when scientists blocked the glare from the giant star it orbits.
NPR Topics: News 2008
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