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The Curious Case of Iconic Star Vega's Missing Planets

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In 1984 , astronomers spotted a rotating disk of gas and dust around the nearby star Vega .

Now, a closer look at that same star has revealed something odd; there are no planets to be found in Vega ’s planet-forming disk.

Vega is located 25 light years away from Earth in the constellation Lyra , and is brightly visible in the summer skies of the Northern Hemisphere .

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