AKARI reveals Red Giants' dusty veils
| Science
Fig.1: A false-color far-IR image of U Hydrae at 90 micron taken with AKARI's Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS), showing a shell of cold
Fig.2: A two-color-composite mid-IR image of U Ant taken with AKARI's Infrared Camera (IRC), showing a shell of warm dust
AKARI reveals dusty veils enshrouding two Red Giant stars with unprecedented sensitivities and accuracies. The research would help to decipher the riddle of the cosmic reincarnation of matter surrounding the mystery of the origin of the basic chemical building blocks of life such as carbon.