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Topic: moon formation

Artist's concept of an extreme debris disk: a glowing band of warm dust around a young star, with a bright flash marking a planet-scale collision.

NEWS Space and Aerospace

Webb's crash course: 21 shattered planetary systems show two kinds of world-making violence

A Webb survey led by Kate Su compiled 21 extreme debris disks and found two distinct collision regimes, silica-rich crashes of Mars-sized bodies and silica-poor grazes of Moon-sized ones, giving Earth's own violent history a statistical context for the first time.