India, Feb. 19 -- European Space Agency (ESA) shared an intriguing picture of a young planetary system called Beta Pictoris, located just 63 light-years away from the Earth. The image depicts a dust disc resulting from collisions between asteroids, comets, and planetesimals. Adding a fascinating twist, ESA also shared that there is a 'cat's tail' in this system.
As the space agency shared the picture, they informed in the caption that "the edge-on disc of dusty debris generated by collisions between planetesimals (orange) dominates the view. A hotter secondary disc (cyan) is inclined by about 5 degrees relative to the primary disc. The curved feature at the upper right, which the science team nicknamed the 'cat's tail,' has never been se...
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