This is an artist's rendition of a dusk disk. It was made to discover what other solar systems look like. It could look like ours or the planets could be in a vertical row revolutionizing at the same time. Dusk disks are made from nearby stars and can only be seen when using infrared. The idea of making this picture was from the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and ESA's Herschel Space Observatory. In this painting there are two dusk disks, one made by parent star other is farther out. You can see it in this picture, the bright golden dot is the parent star, while the outside is the other dust disk. They are made when planets repel and absorb dust from their gravity. The star here is the HD 95086, it is a blue star and is 60% more massive than our sun. You can see this star with binoculars if you look at the constellation Carina.
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