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Counting Comets Around Another Star
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Counting Comets Around Another Star

Another “Science Friday” courtesy of the European Southern Observatory. From ESO, (link here) “The HARPS instrument at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has been used to make the most complete census of comets around another star ever created. A French team of astronomers has studied nearly 500 individual comets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris […]

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So Many Seas to Sail
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So Many Seas to Sail

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working with the European Space agency’s Herschel Space Observatory has announced the discovery of large concentrations of comets in two solar systems relatively close to our own.  With both systems likely to contain rocky planets,  the presence of so many water bearing comets, at a concentration 10 times greater than found in our own solar system,  […]

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