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Quando usar Debris Disk 3D Explorer
Use this explorer when you want to see a mature, already-formed debris disk and how its shape revealed a hidden planet, and skip it when you want a still-forming protoplanetary disk instead.
- Showing the first circumstellar disk ever directly photographed, in 1984
- Explaining how a disk's warp can reveal a planet before it is directly imaged
- Comparing the real main-disk size (400 AU) to the fainter extended halo (1,000 AU)
This is an educational visualization with an exaggerated warp and heavily sped-up rotation.
Walk the controls in the step-by-step guide, or compare options in vs alternatives. Open the Debris Disk 3D Explorer.
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