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In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's novel, scientist Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, journeys through a wormhole to the star Vega, emerging in a debris disk devoid of visible planets. This depiction aligns with recent findings from astronomers at the University of Arizona, who used NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to study Vega's nearly 100-billion-mile-wide debris disk. "The Vega disk is smooth, ridiculously smooth," noted researcher Andras Gáspár, highlighting its uniqueness compared to other circumstellar disks. More Read > https://lnkd.in/g-SRY_Mi #VegaDiscovery #Hubble #JamesWebb #ContactFilm #Exoplanets #Astronomy #SpaceScience #DebrisDisk #CarlSagan #PlanetFormation #INFINITYCOSMOS

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