Video: How an Exoplanet Makes Waves
by Rich Brueckner from High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC on (#27XV4)
In this video, a new NASA supercomputer simulation depicts the planet and debris disk around the nearby star Beta Pictoris reveals that the planet's motion drives spiral waves throughout the disk, a phenomenon that greatly increases collisions among the orbiting debris. Patterns in the collisions and the resulting dust appear to account for many observed features that previous research has been unable to fully explain.
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