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Seeking Planets in the Dust Artist Concept
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About this work
A dusty planetary system left is compared to another system with little dust in this artist concept. Dust can make it difficult for telescopes to image planets because light from the dust can outshine that of the planets.
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Credit lineSeeking Planets in the Dust Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2014-12-02. Public domain. ID: PIA18901.
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