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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe _Astrophys. J_ 797, 119 (2014) Imagine trying to study Saturn while the sun is shining. Such is the problem facing researchers who are
actively looking for exoplanets around distant stars, as those stars always outshine any orbiting planets or surrounding dust. Instead, sophisticated interferometry techniques must null out
the light from the star. Bertrand Mennesson and his team used exactly this technique to analyse forty-seven stars, about half with cool dust and half without. This is a preview of
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