Massive dust cloud spotted by NASA’s Spitzer telescope could give insights into planet formation - The Indian Express

As an infrared telescope, Spitzer was uniquely suited to detecting the dust and debris created by collisions between celestial bodies.

A group of astronomers made over 100 routine observations of a distant ten-million-year-old star called HD166191 using NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope and combined that with knowledge about the stars b… [+3260 chars]

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