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Hubble spies a suspected exoplanet disappear before its very eyes. Although Fomalhaut b was originally thought to be the first directly imaged exoplanet, further observations show it's disintegrated over time, suggesting the 'planet' was really just a titanic collision between icy space rocks.


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