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Hubble Space Telescope spies dusty debris from two cosmic collisions
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This illustration provided by NASA in December 2025 depicts the aftermath of a collision between two massive space rocks orbiting the star Fomalhaut. - photo by NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford, Space Telescope Science Institute via AP
NEW YORK (AP) — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright spot near a young star called Fomalhaut. They thought it could be a planet and continued to track it.