Its a mysterious system because its unlike other circumstellar disks weve looked at.
It turns out, the movie got it right, and its very confusing for real-life scientists.
Nearly 20 years later, the Webb and Hubble telescopes teamed up to reveal never-before-seen details within Vegas disk.
A Hubble Space Telescope false-color view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega.NASA, ESA, STScI, S. Wolff (University of Arizona)
Stars form from massive clouds of gas and dust collapsing under the weight of their own gravity.
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On the left is Hubble’s false-color view of the Vega disk, while on the right Webb resolves the glow of warm dust in a disk halo. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, S. Wolff (University of Arizona), K. Su (University of Arizona), A. Gáspár (University of Arizona)
