The wonders of the universe mix with the wonders of imagination with this artist's concept of dust disks that may be forming planets. The observations are done of nearby stars by infrared light. The Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory have found that planetary system HD 95086 has 2 dust disks (above)- a hot one near the star and a cooler one at a further distance. The artist took the liberty of forming their own planets with rings. The planets may explain why there's such a large gap between the rings by their absorption and deflecting of dust via their gravity. HD 95086 is a blue star about 60% larger than our own. It lie 300 light years from Earth, but is visible with binocular toward the constellation of Carina. By monitoring these rings, astronomers may get an inside look at how our own solar system formed.
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