Dusty Disc | Space Wallpaper

Monday, March 10, 2014 - 11:01 in Astronomy & Space

Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris, as seen in this space wallpaper, is 75 percent more massive than our parent star.

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