NASA’s Space Telescope has penetrated a dense cloud of debris that formed hundreds of light years from Earth.
Observations from the US Space Agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the dust in question formed when Two celestial bodies the size of a dwarf planet collided with each other.
The NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory The study described by the astronomer revealed that astronomers were able to track a cloud of debris for the first time as it passed in front of its parent star HD 166191.
Based on the star’s size, brightness, and cloud observations, they were also able to estimate the size of the dust nebula and the size of potential impacting objects.
The region around HD 166191 is littered with rock fragments, in part because the star is relatively young: it’s only 10 million years old, compared to 4.5 billion years in the Sun. The leftover dust during the formation of the young star gradually condenses to form small planets, From which advanced planets may form later.
As astronomers investigated, HD 166191 began shining in mid-2018, indicating more debris was approaching, while Spitzer also captured a transit in which a cloud of dust passed between the telescope and the star.
Based on all this, it can be imagined that the dust cloud is undergoing a transformation process, which, according to preliminary predictions, may be caused by the collision of huge objects, the width of which can reach 500 kilometers in diameter.
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