Visualisation of Fomalhaut and Fomalhaut b (Artist's Impression) (IMAGE)

ESA/Hubble Information Centre

Visualisation of Fomalhaut and Fomalhaut b (Artist's Impression)

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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.

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ESA/NASA, M. Kornmesser

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