
This artist concept illustrates how planetary systems arise out of massive collisions between rocky bodies. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope show that these catastrophes continue to occur around stars even after they have developed full-sized planets.
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NASA ID
PIA06939
Date Created
October 18, 2004
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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