Smash! Aftermath of Colossal Impact Spotted Around Sunlike Star

Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 13:30 in Astronomy & Space

The researchers detected a huge disk of dusty debris around a sunlike star called NGC-2547 ID8. The cloud was likely spawned when two planetary building blocks slammed into each other just two years ago or so, scientists said.

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