This artistic representation depicts dust, boulder-sized rocky objects, and a forming extrasolar planet in this drawing of a debris disk. Insets in the upper left are Hubble Space Telescope images of debris disks around stars AU Microscopii (top left, disk shown edge-on) and HD107146 (top mid, disk shown face-on).

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap041210.html

Author: Madison Burt, UCF Undergraduate 2017
Editor: Patrick Joiner, UCF Interdisciplinary Studies, Class of 2018
Senior Editor: M.M. Montgomery, Ph.D, UCF Physics