NASA has shared an image depicting what researchers say is the first observation of a debris cloud from a massive celestial collision.
In a study published earlier this month in the Astrophysical Journal, a group of astronomers led by the University of Arizona reported when the debris cloud passed in front of its star and briefly blocked the light, also called a transit.
While astronomers using NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope have previously found evidence of these types of collisions around young stars where rocky planets are forming, those observations did not provide many details about the events. The authors began making routing observations of a 10 million-year-old star called HD 166191 in 2015.
As the gas that previously filled the space is dispersed, catastrophic collisions between them are frequent.
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