Beta Pictoris

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A ten million year old star surrounded by extensive dusty debris disks, full of icy objects and potential comets. In addition to the primary protoplanetary disk, a distinct secondary disk exists tilted about 4 degrees from the main disk, visible out to roughly 24 billion miles from the star and probably even farther.

It is possible planets are forming in two different planes around the star in both disks. The young solar system currently exists at planetesimal stage of development.