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Beta Pictoris, a research favourite among astro-boffins since the discovery of its bright debris-and-dust disk in 1984, has yielded new wonders in a NASA supercomputer simulation. The debris disk, Goddard astrophysicist Marc Kuchner explains, has what looks to be a warp in long wavelengths, but looks like an X in shorter …

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  1. emmanuel goldstein

    Great Science

    and their video is well worth viewing. top boffinry.

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  2. Graham Marsden
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    SMACK

    Certainly better than some of the contrived Acronyms out there!

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  3. cortland

    Is there a transcript?

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