Astronomers discover two asteroid belts around Vega

SlashGear writes, If you’re a sky watcher, you may be familiar with Vega. Vega is the fifth brightest star in the sky. Astronomers have recently made an interesting discovery that has to do with Vega. Using data from the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and the ESA Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have discovered that Vega has two asteroid belts and may have an entire system of exoplanets. Both the ESA and NASA orbital observatories use infrared light for their observations. Vega is 25 light years away from the Earth in the constellation Lyra. Astronomers discovered during their observations that the star…

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