Скачать или смотреть The Fomalhaut Impact

This is an artist’s visualization which depicts the sequence of events that may have led to the formation of the dust cloud cs2 around the star Fomalhaut. While the animation itself is a conceptual reconstruction, actual observations from the Hubble Space Telescope later revealed an expanding debris cloud—evidence of a violent collision between two large bodies orbiting the star. The resulting cloud of dust and fragments was so dense and compact that it was initially mistaken for a newly discovered exoplanet. Such a catastrophic impact has no known equivalent in our present-day solar system.

Credits: ‪@HubbleESA‬