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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.

March 21, 2012

Data from MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals New Insights on Planet Mercury

February 23, 2012

UC Santa Barbara Researcher's New Study May Lead to MRIs on a Nanoscale

February 15, 2012

Astronomers Watch Instant Replay of Powerful Stellar Eruption

February 14, 2012

Planck Satellite Reveals Enormous Haze of Energetic Particles at the Center of Milky Way

David Weld

February 13, 2012

UC Santa Barbara Physicist Receives $360,000 Grant for Work with Ultracold Atoms

January 10, 2012

Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen

December 16, 2011

Quantum Physics Research Chosen as One of Physics World's Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2011

December 14, 2011

Scientists Publish New Findings about the ‘Supernova of a Generation’

December 5, 2011

UCSB Scientist Contributes to Discovery of the Fastest-Rotating Massive Star Ever Recorded

November 2, 2011

UCSB Physicists Identify Room Temperature Quantum Bits in Widely Used Semiconductor

October 14, 2011

UCSB Nobel Laureate Honored as Centenary Solvay Chair

September 26, 2011

White House Announces that Two UCSB Faculty Members Will Receive U.S. Presidential Science Awards

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