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While doing thesis research in Chile this March, Ray Jayawardhana, a student in the department of astrophysics and a resident tutor in Quincy House, observed that a dust ring around the star astronomers refer to as HR 4796A was shaped like a disk, which may indicate the presence of planets...
According to Hartmann, HR 4796A, a star about 20 times more luminous than the Sun, is "about 8 to 10 million years old" which he said is around the age at which planets are estimated to form...
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