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This month, Clampin and his colleagues are using the Keek Observatory to hunt for planets near the lopsided ring around Fomalhaut. The newly imaged inner region of the disk comes as close to Fomalhaut as Saturn does to the sun and may mark the location of an inner asteroid belt circling the star, notes Stapelfeldt. In contrast, three other stars now known to have dust rings--Vega, Fomalhaut, and Beta Pictoris--are much younger and more massive than the sun (SN: 4/25/98, p. |
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t, mouth of the fish, Fomalhaut : fam, mouth; see p in Semitic roots + al-, the +