Fomalhaut cs2 (artist’s concept animation)

This artist’s concept animation shows the sequence of events leading up to the creation of dust cloud cs2 around the star Fomalhaut.

Hubble captured the violent collision of two massive objects around the star Fomalhaut. This extraordinary event is unlike anything in our own present-day solar system. The huge debris cloud created by this impact looked like a newly found exoplanet.