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NASA’s Hubble Space
Telescope captured

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the largest planet-forming
disk ever seen.

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Located roughly
1.000 light-years from Earth.

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This protoplanetary disk,
nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,”

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spans nearly 400 billion miles.

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40 times the diameter of the Solar System

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to the outer edge of the Kuiper
Belt of cometary bodies.

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A protoplanetary disk
is a giant ring of gas

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and dust, where material clumps
together to form new worlds.

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This one is so massive that astronomers
think it could build multiple

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gas giants, like a scaled up version
of our own early solar system.

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Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the disk’s
playful name comes from its discoverers,

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one from Transylvania
and another from Uruguay,

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where the national dish is a sandwich
called a Chivito,

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similar to a hamburger for you
English speakers watching.

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Seen edge-on, it definitely
looks like a cosmic hamburger, with a dark

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middle lane and glowing layers
above and below,

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Hubble revealed wispy structures
and uneven features

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that may be caused by a hidden pair
of binary stars tugging at the disk.

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Thanks to Hubble, we now can see this disk’s
surprising scale and detail.

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Dracula’s Chivito is not just the largest

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protoplanetary disk
ever imaged, it's also a window

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into how planets are born
and how systems like ours began.

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