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Beta Pictoris Edge-On (Beta Pictoris , IRAS 05460-5104) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Beta Pictoris Edge-On

October 10, 1995 · ESA/Hubble · Beta Pictoris , IRAS 05460-5104

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The disk appears four times thicker in a ground-based image of Beta Pictoris than in a Hubble Space Telescope image due to the limitation of atmospheric seeing.