Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away ...
Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead author Andy Tzanidakis’ rendering of the planetary collision he suspects occurred around star Gaia20ehk in 2021. (CREDIT: ...
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Two planets collide under astronomers' watch
What happens when two planets collide? Astronomers have just observed the aftermath in real time around a distant star. The star Gaia20ehk, similar to our Sun, suddenly began to flicker starting in ...
A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...
University of Washington astronomers discovered possible evidence of two planets colliding while reviewing 2020 telescope data. The finding came after a sun-like star about 11,000 light years away ...
Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away from Earth. The rare cosmic event is not one scientists get to see ...
A researcher discovered the rare cosmic event by noticing strange dips in a star's brightness in old telescope data. The collision created a hot cloud of rocks and dust, which researchers detected ...
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