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An enormous 'Cat's Tail' tells of cosmic collision 63 light-years away


Known as the "Cat's Tail," a vast cloud of dust wafting across a young star system could be the aftermath of a collision between two or more Pluto-sized bodies annihilated to microscopically small dust grains.

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