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Messy Star System
Featured on February 10, 2011
Planets, comets, asteroids, and vast clouds of dust fill the space around the star Beta Pictoris in this artist's concept. The system is young, so it is completing the process that gives birth to planets. Beta Pictoris is about 65 light-years from Earth, and is visible to the unaided eye. [NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook]
