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My interpretation would be that the dust cloud is fairly well defined, so the glow on the inside is scattered light from Fomalhaut, and probably the outside as well. I say probably because the suggestion here is that the dynamics of Fomalhaut b are keeping the inner edge of the dust cloud sharp. It...

Close up or far away, it makes no difference. Better to say it would appear fairly homogeneous if viewed without artifacts. Thanks. If it's the same thing as lens eye/artifacts Ithink I understand. I'm trying to put together a decent graphical representation of how it might look close up. For examp...

Thanks Chris. So the dust belt itself would appear as a fairly homogeneous mass close up?

Mark

Can somebody help me with this?.... About the image, HubbleSite says .... "The radial streaks are scattered starlight." These streaks aren't something you'd see up close, are they? Would they retain their arrow straight courses while ploughing through all that dust? Are they lens artifacts...