Giant planet 'vanishes' and now astronomers think it never existed at all
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dailystar.co.ukThe planet Dagon – originally known as Fomalhaut b – was one of the first planets orbiting a distant star to have been directly imaged by the Hubble Space telescope.
The discovery of Dagon was initially announced in 2008 and the large, Jupiter-sized planet’s existence was confirmed in 2012.
But now, bizarrely, Dagon seems to have disappeared. And astronomers now suspect that the “planet” may never have existed at all.
According to a scientific paper published this week, researchers now believe the sightings of Dagon were really a mistake. The apparent planet may have just been a large debris field resulting from two very large icy objects smashing into each other. “These collisions are exceedingly rare and so this is a big deal that we
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