For comparison, Fomalhaut, a star very similar to Vega, also has a debris disk, but it has a much higher eccentricity that ranges from 0.12 to 0.31. Due to this higher eccentricity, Fomalhaut's ...

plus separate research that directly detected a planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut - won the 2009 Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The ...