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Dust from Colliding Asteroids Masqueraded as a Planet

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New analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images suggests that Fomalhaut b, once believed to be an extrasolar planet, is, in fact, a cloud of dust that likely formed from the… Click to show full abstract

New analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images suggests that Fomalhaut b, once believed to be an extrasolar planet, is, in fact, a cloud of dust that likely formed from the collision of enormous asteroids.

Keywords: dust colliding; planet; asteroids masqueraded; masqueraded planet; colliding asteroids

Journal Title: Eos
Year Published: 2020

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