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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. |
Onboard camera captures Juno's approach to Earth Posted: 11 Dec 2013 10:28 AM PST When NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth early in October 2013, recording a first-of-a-kind movie of the approach was a special assignment for an onboard camera system known as a star tracker. |
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