Dusty disc of crushed comets around a nearby star caused by collisions with thousands of comets a day

Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 11:31 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers have studied a ring of dust around the nearby star Fomalhaut and have deduced that it is created by the collision of thousands of comets every day.

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