The Beta Pictoris debris disk—a massive ring of dust and rocky material surrounding a young star—contains a distinct structure called the Cat's Tail. By combining years of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have captured th...

Beta Pictoris is a young, well-studied star system already known to host planets and a vast outer debris disk. New observations have provided a clearer look at the hot, fine dust orbiting very close to the star, known as exozodiacal dust. This materi...