NASA's Hubble and Webb examine the mysterious smooth disk around Vega
In the 1997 film "Contact," based on Carl Sagan's novel, the protagonist Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, takes a journey via a space-alien-constructed wormhole to the star Vega. What she finds is a scene of swirling debris, with no evident planets. Recent observations seem to affirm the filmmakers' depiction. Astronomers from the University of Arizona, Tucson, have employed NASA's H