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Colliding Dwarf Planets Created a 'Cat's Tail' 1,000 Astronomical Units Long

Hubble coronagraphic imaging of the Beta Pictoris debris disk detected the Cat's Tail in visible light for the first time, previously seen only by JWST. The structure is attributed to a collision of two dwarf-planet-sized bodies, each roughly 1–3 times Ceres in mass, producing dark, porous organic dust.


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