NASAs Hubble saw fledgling planets colliding around a nearby star
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted fresh clues around a nearby star that strengthen the case that an object previously seen there was not a planet but an enormous space crash.
A team of astronomers observed a new, faint point of light near the inner edge of a broad ring of dust circling Fomalhaut in 2023. The object closely resembles an earlier detection in the mid-2000s, which gradually faded.
Both objects appear at locations where scientists would expect debris from high-speed collision...
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