An international team of researchers discovered 30 exocomets and determined the size of their nuclei in a world first. Find out more at 💫 Engineering
, outlines the discovery of 30 new exocomets and also provides the most detailed analysis yet of the interstellar space rocks.Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite"Up until recently, observations of β Pictoris were made only using spectroscopy, probing the gaseous cloud surrounding the cometary nuclei," Lecavelier des Etangs said."Using high precision photometry, we could probe the dust tail of the comets, as we predicted more than 20 years ago .
The researchers explain that the size distribution is very similar to what would be expected within our solar system, showing that the exocomets were very likely shaped by a series of collisions and breakups. "The observed distribution corresponds precisely to the distribution expected in the case of a population of objects that results from a cascade of collisions and fragmentation," as seen nearer Earth, Lecavelier des Etangs explained toRecent research shows that asteroids and comets may have played a substantial role in the development of life on Earth. This week, scientists announced
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