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Before the Smashup Artist Concept
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About this work
This artist concept illustrates an imminent planetary collision around a pair of double stars. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that such collisions could be common around a certain type of tight double, or binary, star system.
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Credit lineBefore the Smashup Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2010-08-23. Public domain. ID: PIA13347.