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Astronomers Study Planetary Collisions in Young Star Systems

Astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study 21 young star systems. Each system is an extreme debris disk. A debris disk is a ring of dust and broken rocks circling a star. This ring is left over after planets have formed. The scientists wanted to learn about planetary collisions. They estimate that extreme debris disks are rare.…

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