planetary system

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"What's so exciting is that we're seeing a preview of what will become a very normal planetary system," says John Livingston, the study's lead author from the Astrobiology Center in Tokyo, Japan.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2026

"This is a new phenomenon, a point source that appears in a planetary system and then over 10 years or more slowly disappears," Kalas said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026

The observations reveal two separate and powerful impacts that produced expanding clouds of dust within the same planetary system.

From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026

But that doesn’t mean scientists aren't making do with what they have, while revealing how truly weird this planetary system is.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2024

Or perhaps they will merely pick up and leave for Mars or Europa or Titan or, at last, as Robert Goddard envisioned, seek out an uninhabited planet in some young and promising planetary system.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan