Figure 1: Artist's concept of the binary star ε Aurigae. | Nature

Figure 1: Artist's concept of the binary star ε Aurigae.

From: Shrouded in a dusty disk

Figure 1

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The image shows a large, dark disk (about 1,000 times larger than the diameter of the Sun) surrounding a smaller star (left) and beginning to eclipse its supergiant companion. Kloppenborg et al.1 have obtained images of the previously unseen disk of ε Aurigae during eclipse.

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