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Press Room 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 Archive All News News Conferences Public Affairs Office David Aguilar (617) 495-7462 Christine Pulliam (617) 495-7463 pubaffairs@cfa	Press Release Release No.: 2005-25For Release: Monday, July 18, 2005 Astronomers Debate Whether Oldest Known Dust Disk Will Ever Form Planets Astronomers were surprised to discover a 25-million-year-old protoplanetary disk around a pair of red dwarf stars 350 light-years away. Gravitational stirring by the binary star system (shown in this artist's conception) may have prevented planet formation. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) High Resolution Image (jpg) Low Resolution Image (jpg) Back to Press Release
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