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Surprisingly fast motions in a dust disk

A recently commissioned planet-finding instrument has been used to study a young solar system around the star AU Microscopii, leading to the discovery of rapidly moving features in the dust disk around the star. See Letter p.230

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Perrin, M. Surprisingly fast motions in a dust disk. Nature 526, 204–205 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/526204a

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