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Fomalhaut
An image of the disk of material around the star Fomalhaut, with its planet seen in the insert (taken at two different dates). CfA astronomers doing theoretical modeling of watery super-Earths have found that collisions between such planets will not increase the amount of water on either one.
Credit: Hubble Space Telescope, NASA and ESA
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