The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt — produced by colliding comets or asteroids — orbiting a subgiant star known to host a ...

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The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ...