Thread: Keck telescope *SEES* three-planet system!
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Old 14-November-2008, 01:09 AM
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WOW!
I assume that the disk in the middle of the picture is the dust disk. So they are not imaging the star itself in that image. I wonder if the dust disk helped with the planet imaging, blocking the light from the star?
No, the dust disk is exterior to the planets.
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