
Tau Ceti a Star for Life to Avoid
July 6, 2004
Tau Ceti, a star with a dust disk astronomers had hoped might be an example of a planetary system under construction, is more like a war zone. A press release from the Royal Observatory calls it “Asteroid Alley – an Inhospitable Neighbor.” Using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, the astronomers detected 10 times […]