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A mysterious 93-billion-mile cosmic structure may be the wreckage of colliding worlds


NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed surprising new details about a mysterious, 93-billion-mile-long cloud of dark, fluffy dust that may have formed when massive planetary bodies collided. The discovery challenges previous assumptions about the structure and offers new clues about the violent birth of planetary systems.

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