Thursday, 17. October 2002

Other solar systems


There is a fish with a solar system in its mouth. This fish swims through our nighttime skies and bears the name Piscis Austrinus the Southern Fish. The star that forms its mouth, Fomalhaut, is just 200 million years old and 2.3 times the size of the sun. Around it, astronomers have discovered a disk of gas and dust and comets, and evidence of a planet the size of Saturn.

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