"It's Armageddon, sir"

[Horwood Beer-Master]

A Nasa space telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets orbiting a young star.



Also see,
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitz ... 90810.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badas ... s-collide/
http://spacespin.org/article.php/90822- ... -vaporized


And this really cool animation (best in 'full screen'),





Oh, and for those wondering about the thread title, it references (for no particular reason) a certain infamous cover of Private Eye.