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NASA's Hubble, Webb probe surprisingly smooth disk around Vega

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Astronomers used NASA 's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to revisit the legendary Vega disk.

Vega disk is smooth, ridiculously smooth, unlike other circumstellar disks we've looked at.

There is no obvious evidence for one or more large planets plowing through the face-on disk like snow tractors.

Vega is legendary because it offered the first evidence for material orbiting a star -- presumably the stuff for making planets -- as potential abodes of life.

It took over 200 years before the first observational evidence was collected in 1984 .

A puzzling excess of infrared light from warm dust was detected by NASA 's IRAS .

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