The survey will commence in late 2007 and will be executed over 390 hr, reaching 90% completion within 2 years. This will be the first unbiased survey for debris disks since the Infrared Astronomical ...

Debris disks are structures found around stars that consist of dust and small bodies, similar to the asteroid and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. These disks provide valuable insights into the ...

In the more than 60 years in which scientists have engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), several ...

Much Slower These new images of Vega's disk come from the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) camera onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) taken in 2024. What it shows is a debris disk that is ...

This image of the dusty debris disk surrounding the young star Fomalhaut is from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). It reveals three nested belts extending out to 14 billion miles (23 ...

Dr. Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer and director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, and Dr. Lauren Sgro, ...

and planets emerge in disks of debris around new stars. Early galaxies are also swathed in dust. Little visible light gets out, but these objects still emit heat—and infrared. "If you only look ...

The JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument revealed the disk to be unusually uniform ... suggesting the formation of exoplanets that have cleared the debris in that area. No Gaps Around Vega Both JWST ...