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Fomalhaut Disk

The narrow dust ring around the bright star Fomalhaut. Peach at top is the ALMA image, and the blue at bottom is Hubble Space Telescope image. The star is at the location of the bright gold emission at the center of the ring.

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

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Date	2011-03-16T01:16
Center	RA: 22:57:39.56, Dec: -29:37:21.62
Field of View	0.53 x 0.706 arcminutes

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