viernes, 29 de agosto de 2014

Aftermath of Colossal Impact Spotted Around Sunlike Star

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Aftermath of Colossal Impact Spotted Around Sunlike Star



The researchers detected a huge disk of dusty debris around a sunlike star called NGC-2547 ID8, which lies about 1,140 light-years from Earth in the constellation Vela.

The cloud was likely spawned when two planetary building blocks slammed into each other just two years ago or so, scientists said.

"This is the first detection of a planetary impact outside of our own solar system," study lead author Huan Meng, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, told Space.com.

http://m.space.com/26975-giant-impact-debris-disk-sunlike-star.html?cmpid=514630_20140828_30653986

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