Before the Smashup Artist Concept
This artist concept illustrates an imminent planetary collision around a pair of double stars. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that such collisions could be common around a certain type of tight double, or binary, star system.
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NASA ID
PIA13347
Date Created
August 23, 2010
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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