debris cloud

According to recent research, Trojan planets that are the same size as Jupiter, which are orbiting around the same star, have been found for the first time.According to Live Science report, the new discovery is located around 370 light-years from Earth. Scientists believe that they must be debris of a shattered dead planet or they might be building blocks of a new one. For about two decades, the existence of Trojan planets with shared orbits around a star has been a subject of speculation among astronomers. This…

NASA has shared an image of what astronomers say is the first observation of a giant debris cloud formed by a massive collision of celestial bodies. Astronomers observed the cloud as it passed in front of its star and briefly blocked its light. Astronomers have long found evidence of collision among celestial bodies. But those observations did not provide many details about the collisions, such as the size of the objects involved. This observation was fresh in that sense. The passing by of the debris cloud in front of a…