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Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

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Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Hubble discovered a point of light in a neighboring star system, presumably a debris cloud from a celestial body collision.

In a spectacular glimpse into the violent early days of planetary systems, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of catastrophic collisions in a star system beyond our own. According to ...

It is a rare occurrence indeed for a theory to be turned upside down by the cold accuracy of observation, until the Hubble ...

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Astronomers have witnessed shocking cosmic collisions around Fomalhaut, a nearby star just 25 light-years away. Giant space rocks smashed apart, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ...