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SPHERE Shows Us How Our Solar System Isn't Much Different Than Others

December 05, 2025
SPHERE Shows Us How Our Solar System Isn't Much Different Than Others
By Evan Gough (https://ift.tt/BY6TNpV)

This is a gallery of debris disks captured by the SPHERE instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope. They're visible by the starlight they reflect, with the central star blocked out by the telescope's coronagraph. Image Credit: © N. Engler et al./SPHERE Consortium/ESO

Observations with the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's VLT revealed the presence of debris rings similar to structures in our Solar System. SPHERE found rings similar to the Kuiper Belt and the Main Asteroid Belt. Though individual asteroids and comets can't be imaged, these debris rings infer that other solar systems have architectures similar to ours.



December 6, 2025 at 12:27AM
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