Star-sized dust cloud from cataclysmic collision in exosolar system detected - News9 LIVE

While such collisions have been detected previously, they have not been well characterised

Astronomers using data gathered from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have characterised a cataclysmic collision between two planetesimals in orbit around HD 166191. The star is located at a distance o… [+3244 chars]

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