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Fomalhaut
An image of the dusty disk around Fomalhaut, with its planet, Fomalhaut-b, seen in the insert (at two different epochs). The orbit of the planet is less circular than the Earth's orbit. A new paper analyzes the probable orbital character of transiting exoplanets.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Kalas (University of California, Berkeley)
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