New #Hubble images may solve the case of a disappearing exoplanet
A fading dust cloud hints that the once-seen #exoplanet #FomalhautB was never a #planet
“What’s cool about this paper is that for the first time ever we are seeing one of these disks change over time,” says #astrophysicist Tim Pearce. That’s unusual in the field of protoplanetary disks, where scientists usually observe structures that “basically look the same for a human lifetime.”
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hubble-telescope-exoplanet-mystery
https://archive.ph/hfiSs