Fomalhaut

Author(s): Cham Gurren Lagann

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Fomalhaut is a triple star system consisting of an A-type and K-type main-sequence stars and a red dwarf about 25 light-years away in the constellation Pisces Austrinus. From 2008 to 2020, a planet was suspected to be forming in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the primary star of the system, until it was later determined it is just a dense cloud of debris within the disk

(NOTE: See the Hypothetical & Disproven category for this star system's now nonexistent planet, Dagon)

Hubble infrared image of Fomalhaut's debris disk that makes it look like the Eye of Sauron in "Lord of the Rings"

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