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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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UCSB Scientist Contributes to First Discovery of a Planet With Two ‘Suns'

UCSB Physicists Demonstrate the Quantum von Neumann Architecture, a Quantum Processor, and a Quantum Memory on a Chip

UCSB Scientists, Telescopes Help Discover ‘Once in a Generation’ Supernova

New 3-D Photonic Crystals Have Both Electronic and Optical Properties

Researchers Develop Quantum Computing System that Resists ‘Quantum Bug'

UCSB's Kohn Hall Receives LEED Silver Certification From U.S. Green Building Council

‘Zombie’ Stars Key to Measuring Dark Energy

UCSB Assistant Professor Named Outstanding Young Researcher

International Team Demonstrates Subatomic Quantum Memory in Diamond

UCSB Physicists Apply Einstein's Theory to Superconducting Circuits
Richard and Paula Whited
Richard and Paula Whited

UCSB Alumnus Richard Whited Establishes Endowed Chair in Interdisciplinary Science

UCSB Physicist Elected to Head CMS Experiment at Large Hadron Collider
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