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posted 25. November 2004 22:55

ESO Press Release 24 November 2004

Young Stars Poised for Production of Rocky Planets
VLT Interferometer Studies the Inner Region of Circumstellar Discs [1]

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One of the currently hottest astrophysical topics - the hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars - has just received an important impetus from new spectral observations with the MIDI instrument at the ESO VLT Interferometer (VLTI).

An international team of astronomers [2] has obtained unique infrared spectra of the dust in the innermost regions of the proto-planetary discs around three young stars - now in a state possibly very similar to that of our solar system in the making, some 4,500 million years ago.

See Full Press Release at ESO

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