James Webb Space Telescope observes violent collisions between Mars-sized bodies around young stars

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is capturing evidence of violent collisions between Mars-sized celestial bodies in the glowing dust around distant young stars. By examining 21 rare, unusually bright debris disks, astronomers are tracking changes in brightness, grain sizes, and mineral signatures to reconstruct these impactful events, which are thought to be similar to those that shaped our own solar system, including the formation of Earth's Moon.