Strange Dusty Disks around Young Stars May Be Wreckage of Moon- and Mars-Sized Collisions

Oct 2, 2026 - 13:30
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Strange Dusty Disks around Young Stars May Be Wreckage of Moon- and Mars-Sized Collisions
The types of collisions within young stellar systems known as extreme debris disks are relevant to scientists’ understanding of our own Solar System, which is thought to have undergone similar impact events that created our Moon and shaped Earth’s initial state. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Joseph Olmsted, STScI.

New observations of 21 extreme debris disks suggest the dust comes from violent impacts between planet-building bodies, and could even flag star systems in the midst of a planetary shake-up.

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