Image Description:Photo of planets Colliding. This is a photo by NASA Public Domain showing planets Colliding.
This artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects perhaps as large as the planet Pluto smashed together to create the dust ring around the nearby star Vega. New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate the collision took place within the last one million years.
Astronomers think that embryonic planets smashed together, shattered into pieces, and repeatedly crashed into other fragments to create ever finer debris.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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