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Spot before your eyes

Science News,  Sept 2, 2006  by Mike Patterson

The photo "Planet-making disk has a banana split" (SN: 7/1/06,p.5) looks to me more like a solar eclipse, complete with a clear-cut circular blackout in the center and flares.

MIKE PATTERSON, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

The similarity is because astronomers used an occulting disk on the telescope to block the glare of the central star.--R. COWEN

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