While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

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Astronomers have captured the first-ever direct images of a collision around "Fomalhaut," as published in the journal Science. Fomalhaut is a star system that is just 25 light-years away from Earth.

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

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Young star systems are a place of violent collisions between rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects as the dust and ice of a stellar nebula coalesce into planets and moons. But the largest ...

This composite Hubble Space Telescope image shows the debris ring and dust clouds cs1 and cs2 around the star Fomalhaut. For comparison, dust cloud cs1, imaged in 2012, is pictured with dust cloud cs2 ...

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - (Fixes distance in paragraph 6, 2.5 million light-years instead of 2.5 billion) The Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy are currently hurtling through space ...

It’s one of the great fun facts of astronomy: most of the elements that make up our bodies, including carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, calcium—pretty much everything, in fact, aside from the H in our ...