A giant mass of carbon monoxide gas in the dusty disk of star, similar to violent comet crash, has been reported by astronomers with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Telescope in northern Chile. The huge mass of gas was earlier reported by researchers in a Southern Hemisphere star called Beta Pictoris. They have found a single spot of star at distance of about 13 billion kilometers away from the star.

The most surprising fact regarding the star is that it is still filled up with carbon monoxide gas which the scientists believed would have broken down by radiation from host star. Scientists predicted that the origin of gas inside the star is most probably the ongoing collisions between small icy comets embedded in the disk of debris revolving around the Beta Pictoris.

They also predicted that these collisions between comets may also be source of life-giving water to young planets in the alien star system.

Researchers are perplexed with the fact that whether the cometary collisions are results of catastrophic collisions between two icy, Mars-mass planets or due to gravitational pull of an as-yet-unseen planet.

Bill Dent, an astronomer at the Joint ALMA Office in Santiago, Chile, said that collision between icy bodies from the large planet sized comets is the most abundant source of carbon monoxide gas in the young solar system.

Mark Wyatt, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, U.K., said that the findings could help scientists to know about the happenings occurring in this young planetary system.