NASA Spots Giant Debris Cloud Created by Clashing Celestial Bodies - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
3/18/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 1 month ago
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Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars.
Anticipating they might see evidence of one of these collisions around HD 166191, the team used Spitzer to conduct more than 100 observations of the system between 2015 and 2019. While the planetesim… [+2987 chars]
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