planetary system
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"When we detect water -- or even its faint ultraviolet echo, OH -- from an interstellar comet, we're reading a note from another planetary system," said Dennis Bodewits, professor of physics at Auburn.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 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
For a hot Jupiter to have formed through high-eccentricity migration, this circularization time must be shorter than the age of its planetary system.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
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
