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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.

June 30, 2011

‘Zombie’ Stars Key to Measuring Dark Energy

June 27, 2011

International Team Demonstrates Subatomic Quantum Memory in Diamond

June 9, 2011

UCSB Physicists Apply Einstein's Theory to Superconducting Circuits

April 22, 2011

Physics Professor Receives International Award

April 21, 2011

UCSB Undergraduates Recognized by Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Program

April 4, 2011

UCSB Physicist Elected to Head CMS Experiment at Large Hadron Collider

March 7, 2011

New Instrument Keeps An Electronic ‘Eye’ on Nanoparticles

February 14, 2011

International Team of Scientists Says It's High ‘Noon’ for Microwave Photons

February 2, 2011

NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates; UCSB, Las Cumbres Scientists Play Key Role in Mission

January 31, 2011

UCSB Physicists Challenge Classical World with Quantum-Mechanical Implementation of ‘Shell Game’

January 13, 2011

International Planck Mission Peels Back Layers of the Universe; Physicists Play Important Scientific Role

December 17, 2010

Research by Physicists Honored as Science's 2010 Breakthrough of the Year

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