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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.

Photo Credit

Thomas Müller (MPIA/HdA)

Scientist imagine the scene when two comets collided in the Fomalhaut system, only 25 light years from Earth.

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December 20, 2001

Kavli Gives $7.5 Million to Institute of Theoretical Physics To Be Named in His Honor

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ASTEROID NAMED FOR UCSB NOBELIST

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February 14, 2001

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