Mega disks found around massive stars

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The Spitzer telescope found large disks of material around two massive stars, 30 and 70 times more massive than the sun. A large amount of dust is visible in infrared with ten times the mass of the sun's Kuiper Belt in this solar system. It's interesting that the dust disks can form around the massive stars, althrough those stars won't live long. The first author of the paper is Joel Kastner, someone I know in person at RIT.

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