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Beta Pictoris Disk Warp

Great Britain · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1996

Christopher Burrows17 January 1996

Science / Astronomy

Burrows leads Hubble observations showing a warp in the Beta Pictoris dust disk consistent with gravitational influence from an unseen planet.

Names involved

Christopher Burrows

Provenance

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