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A Distant Solar System Artist Concept
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About this work
This artist concept depicts a distant hypothetical solar system, similar in age to our own. Looking inward from the system outer fringes, a ring of dusty debris can be seen, and within it, planets circling a star the size of our Sun. This debris is all that remains of the planet-forming disk from which the planets evolved. Planets are formed when dusty material in a large disk surrounding a young star clumps together.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineA Distant Solar System Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2004-12-09. Public domain. ID: PIA07096.
