Beta Pictoris Edge-On
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Depicts: Beta Pictoris
Copyright: Al Schultz (CSC/STScI) and NASA
Estimates based on the Hubble image place the disk's thickness as no more than one billion miles (600 million kilometers), or about 1/4 previous estimates from ground-based observations.
Last Update: 1 September 2019