Asteroid Belt Discovered Around Vega

Vega is the second brightest star in northern night skies and astronomers using the  Infrared Space Telescopes  have discovered an asteroid belt much like that of our sun.  Results showing an asteroid belt around Vega makes it more similar to its twin, the star called Fomalhaut. Both stars now are known to have inner, warm asteroid belts and outer, comet-filled belts, similar in architecture to the asteroid and Kuiper belts in our own solar system. read more

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