01-10-2019, 11:08 PM
(01-10-2019, 07:31 PM)stevebowers Wrote: This star is only 26 million years old - part of the Beta Pictoris moving group, a dispersed former star cluster that has split apart relatively recently. Beta Pictoris, AT Microscopii and a number of other stars in this group all have similar disks, where planet formation continues.
AT Microscopii is some tens of light-years from Beta Pictoris, isn't it?
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama