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	Fomalhaut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fomalhaut (α PsA / α Piscis Austrini / Alpha Piscis Austrini) is the brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky.
		Fomalhaut's disk is believed to be protoplanetary, and emits considerable infrared radiation.
		In the religion of Stregheria, Fomalhaut is a fallen angel and quarter guardian of the northern gate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fomalhaut (596 words)

	USS Fomalhaut (AK-22) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fomalhaut arrived at Samoa 8 May 1942 with passengers and cargo from the east coast.
		On 22 June, she sailed for Wellington, New Zealand, to load cargo from 30 June to 22 July, and after exercises in the Fijis, sortied for the initial landings of Marines on Guadalcanal and Tulagi on 7 August.
		Fomalhaut returned to Pearl Harbor 9 April 1944 to prepare for the invasion of the Marianas, and sailed 1 June to land troops and their equipment on Charan Kanoa Beach, Saipan, 16 June, the day after the initial assault.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Fomalhaut_(AK-22) (586 words)

	Fomalhaut
		Fomalhaut ("mouth of the fish" from the Arabic Fam al-Hut) is the seventeenth brightest star in the sky as seen from Earth.
		It is a first magnitude, class A star on the main sequence around 25 LY (7.688 parsecs) from Earth.
		It is surrounded by an enormous disk of dust in a torus shape (5 AU to 90 AU), believed to be protoplanetary, and this emits considerable infrared radiation.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Fomalhaut.html (186 words)

	2005.06.10: Zephaniah's Fomalhaut Trees of Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fomalhaut, the 18th brightest star visible from Earth, and one of the 57 stars of celestial navigation.
		Fomalhaut is the alpha, or brightest, star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, which means "southern fish." Fomalhaut is sometimes referred to as "the solitary one" because it occupies a relatively empty region of the sky.
		In the USA Fomalhaut is the most prominent of the southern stars visible from the 42o N. latitude, as this relates to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and Salt Lake City, Utah.
	www.kealey.net /content/daily_postings/2005.06.10/Fomalhaut.html (509 words)

	Fomalhaut
		Fomalhaut lies at the western edge (22:57:39.05-29:37:20.05, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Pisces Austrinus (or Australis), the Southern Fish (chart and photo).
		Subsequently, new data at short-submillimetre wavelengths of Fomalhaut suggested the presence of a "warp" in the observed, "half-donut" slice image of the dust disk (shown at the top of the page, see: the Royal Observatory Edinburgh 2002 press release; and a 2001 discussion).
		Fomalhaut's ring is similar to the dust disk generated by the Solar System's Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt where icy objects collide to generate a much less dense dust disk, but it is about four times larger than the Solar System's.
	www.solstation.com /stars/fomalhau.htm (1437 words)

	Fomalhaut, alfa PsA debris disk
		Fomalhaut is 2.7 magnitude brighter than Beta Pic, and hence the glare from the star made the detection of nebulosity surrounding it much more difficult.
		Fomalhaut lies in a fishy constellation, not the familiar Pisces, but Pisces Austrinus, which is the Southern Fish.
		2) Fomalhaut is the 17th brightest star in the sky and one of four royal star, or guardian stars, of the heavens.
	astro.berkeley.edu /~kalas/disksite/pages/fom_hst.html (812 words)

	HIGHLIGHTS ~ FOMALHAUT
		Fomalhaut (usually pronounced "foh'-mah-low") is the eighteenth brightest star in the sky.
		Fomalhaut was equated with the Persian god Zal, and is said to bestow charisma and to engender the test of remaining true to our ideals.
		In Syrian and Canaanite lands it was honored as the symbol of the fish-god Dagon, whose temple at Gaza was destroyed by the Biblical strongman Samson.
	www.souledout.org /cosmology/highlights/fomalhaut/fomalhaut.html (1023 words)

	Dust belt around nearby star clear sign of exoplanet
		While the discovery is expected to send astronomers scurrying to their telescopes to obtain direct images of a planet around the star, called Fomalhaut, it also provides a Rosetta stone for debris disks - the pancakes of rock and ice that form around new stars and coalesce into planets.
		Fomalhaut, a star only 25 light years distant and about twice the mass of the sun, is a mere 200 million years old - one-twentieth the age of the sun.
		Fomalhaut (HD 216956) is one of several nearby stars with debris disks that the Hubble telescope has focused on in a search for signs of planets.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-06/uoc--dba061705.php (1297 words)

	Off-Center Optimism for a Planet :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
		Fomalhaut is about 200 million years old, and if the history of our solar system is typical, planets would still be in the process of forming around such a young star.
		Fomalhaut is a nearby star, only 25 light years from the sun.
		A-class stars like Fomalhaut only live for about 713 million years, so if a planet does orbit that star, life would have a relatively short time to develop before the star turns into a red giant.
	www.astrobio.net /news/article1613.html (1223 words)

	Joint Astronomy Centre
		Fomalhaut is the 17th brightest star in the sky and lies in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish).
		The name "Fomalhaut" (pronounced "Fo-mal-ought") derives from the Arabic name for this star, Fum al Hut meaning "The Fish's Mouth." The alternative Latin names for the star, Os Piscis Meridiani or Os Piscis Notii mean "The Mouth of the Southern Fish".
		Fomalhaut is located about 25 light years away from our Sun, is estimated to be 2.3 times as massive as the Sun and about 1.7 times the diameter.
	outreach.jach.hawaii.edu /pressroom/2002_fomalhaut (1684 words)

	STARSTRUCK - Fomalhaut - Lone
		Fomalhaut is the single bright star in the otherwise unremarkable constellation known as "Piscis Austrinus" - The Southern Fish.
		This donut shape is probably caused by newly formed planets around Fomalhaut sweeping clear the middle part of the disk.
		But Fomalhaut is one of the nearest bright stars in the night sky - a mere 25 light years away.
	www.exn.ca /html/templates/printstory.cfm?ID=2004110552 (769 words)

	Fomalhaut.
		Among early Arabs Fomalhaut was Al Difdi' al Awwal, the "First Frog"; (beta Cetus, Deneb Kaitos the Second Frog).
		Regulus was long considered the supreme of the Four Guardians but the role of Fomalhaut - Gabriel, in the birth of Jesus - must now be said to challenge or actually supplant, with a new stage in human spiritual evolution, the supremacy of the more 'medical' Archangel of the Leonine era.
		Ptolemy gives no separate influence and describes Fomalhaut, but according to Bayer the constellation is of the nature of Saturn.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Fomalhaut.html (936 words)

	NASA - NASA's Hubble Chases Unruly Planet
		The suspected planet may be orbiting far away from Fomalhaut, inside the dust ring's inner edge, between 4.7 billion and 6.5 billion miles from the star.
		It is 25 light-years from the sun in the constellation Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish).
		The Fomalhaut ring is 10-times as old as debris disks previously seen around the stars AU Microscopii and Beta Pictoris, where planets may still be forming.
	www.nasa.gov /home/hqnews/2005/jun/HQ_05_158_HST_Ring_Image.html (678 words)

	Astronomers discover the wake of a planet around a nearby star
		Fomalhaut, which lies in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish) is only about 200 million years old - an infant compared to our own Sun at 4.5 billion years.
		The new observations of Fomalhaut are reported in a paper to be published in the Astrophysical Journal - the most widely read journal in astronomy.
		This is a false colour image of the dust emission around Fomalhaut taken with SCUBA at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-10/ppa-adt101002.php (1259 words)

	Universe Today - Extrasolar Planet Reshapes Ring Around a Star
		The suspected planet may be orbiting far away from Fomalhaut, inside the dust ring's inner edge, between 4.7 billion and 6.5 billion miles (50 to 70 astronomical units) from the star.
		Located in the constellation Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish), the Fomalhaut ring is ten times as old as debris disks seen previously around the stars AU Microscopii and Beta Pictoris, where planets may still be forming.
		Previous thermal emission maps of Fomalhaut showed that one side of the ring is warmer than the other side, implying that the ring is off center by about half the distance measured by Hubble.
	universetoday.com /am/publish/extrasolar_planet_reshapes_ring.html?... (1268 words)

	News in Science 14/10/2002 Star dust finding points to other solar systems
		An international team of astronomers have found dust around Fomalhaut – the seventeenth brightest star in the sky – is probably caused by the gravity pull of an orbiting Saturn-like planet.
		Fomalhaut’s observation is unusual because it probes the space far more distant from the star –; on scales of the orbits of Uranus, Neptune and beyond.
		Fomalhaut probably looks like our Solar System did when it was the same age –; 200 million years old.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/10082/20030620/www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s699192.htm (588 words)

	SPACE.com -- Saturn-Like Planet Found, You Can Spot the Star it Orbits
		THE DISCOVERY: False-color image of the dust around Fomalhaut shows a huge disk-like structure where the brightest emission, and hence the most dust, is represented by the brightest yellow.
		The star, Fomalhaut, is the 17th brightest and easily found with the unaided eye.
		Fomalhaut sits in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish).
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/new_planet_021010.html (1104 words)

	Fomalhaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fomalhaut is a white A3V main sequence star having about 1.7 times the diameter of the sun and about 17 times the luminosity.
		Fomalhaut is the nearest young star to us, where planets appear to be forming.
		There are also images of dust discs around Fomalhaut and other stars.
	domeofthesky.com /clicks/fomalhaut.html (135 words)

	Star Fomalhaut alfa PsA debris disk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The relatively sharp peak in the spectral energy distribution (SED) at 100 microns indicates that the dust surrounding Fomalhaut is constrained in radius (and therefore temperature).
		Their best fit to the photometric data from the optical to the millimeter gives a dust temperature of 40 K, a grain size of 100 microns, and a total dust mass of 1.4 lunar mass.
		If the age of Fomalhaut is 200 Myr, then the 100 micron grains observed with SCUBA have been replenished 1000 times over.
	astron.berkeley.edu /~kalas/disksite/pages/fom850.html (546 words)

	A warped dust disk around Fomalhaut : evidence for a planetary system
		New data at short-submillimetre wavelengths of Fomalhaut shows the presence of a "warp" in the observed dust torus.
		m, where the telescope beam-size is equivalent to a resolution of 50 AU at the distance of Fomalhaut, the dust disk appears to have a distinct bend in the connecting emission between the two offset peaks (see Figure 1).
		There is a good resemblance between this model and the Fomalhaut de-projection, after taking into account the large beam size.
	www.jach.hawaii.edu /JCMT/publications/newsletter/n16/fomalhaut.html (944 words)

	Image ssc2003-06i
		The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has obtained the first infrared images of the dust disc surrounding Fomalhaut, the 18th brightest star in the sky.
		Subsequent measurements with sub-millimeter radio telescopes suggested that Fomalhaut is surrounded by a huge dust ring 370 astronomical units (an astronomical unit is the average distance between the Sun and Earth), or 34 billion miles (56 billion kilometers) in diameter.
		[Note that an image of a reference star was subtracted from the Fomalhaut image to reveal the faint disc emission.] Instead, the 'doughnut hole' is filled with warmer dust that extends inward to within at least 10 astronomical units of the parent star.
	www.spitzer.caltech.edu /Media/releases/ssc2003-06/ssc2003-06i.shtml (533 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Hubble spies lord of the stellar rings
		The ring is composed of dust particles in orbit around Fomalhaut, a bright star located just 25 light years away in the constellation Pisces Australis — or the Southern Fish.
		Astronomers suspect the ring around Fomalhaut is the dusty trace of a belt of small comet-like bodies that surround the star, much like the Kuiper Belt that surrounds our solar system.
		And because Fomalhaut is only 200 million years old - less than 5% of the Sun’s present age - it offers a unique analogue of our solar system’s early years.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7564 (521 words)

	DIGIDAY: Star Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The brightest is Fomalhaut, in the constellation Piscis Austrinus -- the southern fish.
		Fomalhaut is only about 200 million years old, compared to four and a half billion years for the Sun.
		It's also possible that the dust in the inner portion of the disk fell into Fomalhaut, or was blown away from the star.
	www.visionx.com /dd/main/star19980731.htm (305 words)

	Newswise
		Newswise — NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut (HD 216956), offers the strongest evidence yet that an unruly and unseen planet may be gravitationally tugging on the ring.
		Located in the constellation Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish), the Fomalhaut ring is twice as old as debris disks seen previously around the stars AU Microscopii and Beta Pictoris, where planets may still be forming.
		Fomalhaut observations made in 2003-2004 with the Spitzer Space Telescope and Caltech's Submillimeter Observatory suggested that the ring is off center by about half the distance measured by Hubble.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/512649?sc=rssn (1211 words)

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