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The research is based on multiple sets of observations of TYC 8241 2652 obtained with the Thermal-Region Camera Spectrograph on the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the IRAS, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite, NASA's Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the Herschel Space Telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA), and AKARI (a Japanese/ESA infrared satellite).
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I don't think its an equipment error, they are sure its gone. If this is true and it has just a vanished without a trace of how, then to me we still have a long, long way to getting anywhere near the point when we can say any theory we have is any way near correct. Don't know why this is not all over the news, as it sates in the article:
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"It's as if the rings around Saturn had disappeared," said co-author Benjamin Zuckerman, a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. "This is even more shocking because the dusty disc of rocky debris was bigger and much more massive than Saturn's rings. The disc around this star, if it were in our solar system, would have extended from the sun halfway out to Earth, near the orbit of Mercury
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When you read this and read it again it blows my mind what is out there that can do this in such a short of amount of time.
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This should be major news everywhere just hope it doesn't end up going nowhere as science today has a good track record of ignoring things that may upset the current accepted views. For this to happen in the first place is imposable with our current knowledge, If I was to say to you one month ago that planet forming dust clouds could vanish without a trace and without effecting the star, and with no clues left as to what happened I would be called a "troll" and brain dead. But this is to me is just what has happened. I am looking forward to learning more about what they have to say what happened, after all the head scratching is done first. Its a strange universe we live in, with a even stranger animal trying to make sense of it.