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This
hoola-hoop in space is actually a dust ring around a young star,
known as HR 4796A, which is about 70 percent larger than the
Sun and probably less than 10 million years old. Dust rings
like this one can only remain intact by some mechanism confining
the dust. Astronomers believe that mechanism might be the formation
of new planets.
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