Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

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A newly discovered object is the most-distant body ever observed in the solar system—and the first object ever found orbiting at more than 100 times the distance from Earth to the sun. The discovery ...