Beta Pictoris

This is an artist's concept of the near stellar environment of the star Beta Pictoris. This illustration is based upon recent observations made with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

A ground based view of the Beta Pictoris system shows that the gas disk is embedded deep within a much broader disk of dust particles more than 100 billion kilometres across which has been detected previously in ground based observations.