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Description: Data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an expanding cloud of dust produced in a collision between two large bodies orbiting the bright nearby star Fomalhaut. This is the first time such a catastrophic event around another star has been imaged. Credit: ESA/NASA, M. Kornmesser
Title: Fomalhaut-artist-impression-heic2006a
Credit: https://spacetelescope.org/images/heic2006a/
Author: ESA/NASA, M. Kornmesser
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