Over at National Geographic, a scene around HD 172555 where scientists think a celestial collision took place a few thousand years ago!

A celestial body about the size of our moon collides with a planet roughly the size of Mercury in a new artist’s conception.
Find more space photos here and check out the newly discovered gigantic suicidal planet…







August 28th, 2009 at 10:11 am
There’s only one humane response to the giant suicidal planet: a million tons of Prozac. And as to the illustrated planetary collision, has the offending moon’s driver’s license been suspended?
August 29th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Wow.