SPITZER AND HUBBLE CAPTURE EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEMS (STScI-PR04-33)

From: INBOX ASTRONOMY: NEWS ALERT (hst-news_at_stsci.edu)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:07:31 -0500

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Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1727)

Whitney Clavin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 626/395-1877)

Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.
(Phone: 410/338-4514)

PRESS RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR04-33

SPITZER AND HUBBLE CAPTURE EVOLVING PLANETARY SYSTEMS

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.

To see and read more, please visit:
http://hubblesite.org/news/2004/33
www.spitzer.caltech.edu

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