Asteroids don’t just collide in our Solar System 💥
Using
@hubbleesa, astronomers spotted the expanding debris cloud from a powerful asteroid collision around the nearby star Fomalhaut — just 95 light-years away.
It’s a rare chance to watch how planetary systems evolve in real time, and a reminder that planet formation is anything but calm.
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@europeanspaceagency
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@space_telescopes R. Crawford (STScI),
@creativecommons BY 4.0; NASA, ESA, P. Kalas (UC Berkeley), J. DePasquale (STScI), CC BY 4.0
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