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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope catches young planetary system by its dusty 'cat's tail' (photo)

Photo showing a large, reddish-orange dust cloud in deep space.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has seen Beta Pictoris as never before, capturing a previously unseen structure that gives the young planetary system a dusty cat's tail.

Located 63 light-years away, from us Beta Pictoris is a star around twice the size of the sun and eight times as bright, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust in which there is evidence planets have formed. 

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