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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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The Search for Quantum Gravity

Many Bodies, Many Possibilities
An artist's impression of a binary neutron star merger

The Art of Doing Science

The Parent Trap

The Goldilocks Supernova
A depiction of an ion trap holding a detectable “bright” radium ion and co-trapped “dark” radioactive molecule.

A Rewarding Endeavor

Subterranean Investigations

Making Waves

‘A New Era of Computing’

Mixing Massive Stars

‘A Sense of Belonging’

Come One, Come All
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