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ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News

ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News


Companion's comets the key to curious exoplanet system?

Posted: 18 Dec 2013 06:58 AM PST

The nearby star Fomalhaut A hosts the most famous planetary system outside our own Solar System, containing both an exoplanet and a spectacular ring of comets. Astronomers have just announced a new discovery with the Herschel Space Observatory that has made this system even more intriguing; the least massive star of the three in the Fomalhaut system, Fomalhaut C, has now been found to host its own comet belt.

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