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Warm dust makes a fast getaway

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A rapid drop in infrared emission from a Sun-like star could indicate that a drastic event has cleared a circumstellar disk of dusty debris — the material from which planets form. See Letter p.74

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Figure 1: Dimming disk.

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  1. Margaret Moerchen is at the Leiden Observatory, 2333 CA Leiden, the Netherlands, and at the European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile.,

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