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In this artist's illustration, the Beta Pictoris debris disk is seen edge-on as a band of wispy orange "clouds." Above the band, a tail-like streak of whitish gas streams out into space above the plane of the disk.
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An enormous 'Cat's Tail' tells of cosmic collision 63 light-years away

Known as the "Cat's Tail," a vast cloud of dust wafting across a young star system could be the aftermath of a collision between two or more Pluto-sized bodies annihilated to microscopically small dust grains.

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