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Space Photos of the Week: Nobody Puts Galaxy in a Corner
Space photos of the week, January 31 – Februrary 6, 2016.
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<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1604/"> Digitized Sky Survey 2/NASA/ESA</a>
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The ‘Flying Saucer’ is a disc made of gas and dust, surrounding a young star in the Rho Ophiuchi star formation region. Astronomers used the ALMA and IRAM telescopes to make the first direct measurement of the disc’s temperature and discovered it’s much colder than expected: 7 degrees above absolute zero. The discovery may have significant consequences for understanding of protoplanetary discs in the future.
