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Counting Comets Around Another Star

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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