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A pair of comets partially melt as they collide in an inset image, lower right, with the system’s young star and accretion disk in the background.
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Thomas Müller (MPIA/HdA)
Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.

Astronomers discover huge dust clouds from violent collisions around nearby star

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Planck Mission Brings Universe Into Sharp Focus

Physicists Make Discovery in the Quantum Realm by Manipulating Light

UCSB Faculty Member Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

California Scientists Propose System to Vaporize Asteroids That Threaten Earth

UCSB Physicists Make Strides in Understanding Quantum Entanglement
Joseph Incandela delivers his historic presentation to the seminar at CERN on July 4, 2012

UCSB's Joseph Incandela Receives Prestigious International Physics Prize
Joseph Polchinski

UCSB Physicist Receives International Acclaim for His Work in Theoretical Physics

Dark Matter Detector Installed Underground and Submerged; Data Collection to Begin in 2013

Scientists Report ‘New Beginning’ in Split-Brain Research, Using New Analytical Tools

UCSB Physicist Receives Prestigious Packard Fellowship Award

Using A Laser to ‘See’ the Smallest World

International Team of Physicists Makes Discovery About Temperature in Convection
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