Phys.org reported on Thursday that an enormous structure nicknamed a "cat's tail" has been linked to a cosmic collision roughly 63 light-years from Earth. According to the outlet, the feature is described as evidence of a past impact event at that distance.
The report gives few further specifics, and the full article text was not available. What is clear from the headline and summary is the scale of the structure and its association with a collision in a star system relatively close to our own on astronomical terms.
The finding adds to a growing body of reporting on debris and dust features around nearby stars, which astronomers study for clues about how such systems evolve. Phys.org frames the "cat's tail" as a record of a collision, though the details behind that interpretation were not included in the material available.
Watch for the full Phys.org report and any follow-up coverage for the identity of the star, the nature of the collision and the observations behind the finding.
