Is there anybody home? Sun-like stars scrutinized

From: Tom (.)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:15:56 -0000

Two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope
and the Hubble Space Telescope, have provided astronomers an
unprecedented look at dusty planetary debris around stars the size
of our sun. Spitzer has discovered for the first time dusty discs
around mature, sun-like stars known to have planets. Hubble captured
the most detailed image ever of a brighter disc circling a much younger
sun-like star. The findings offer "snapshots" of the process by which our
own solar system evolved, from its dusty and chaotic beginnings to its
more settled present-day state.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2004/33/

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