COMETS, ANYONE?
Hey, Space Placers! Caption: This gallery contains 74 images of different star systems with cometary belts (known as “exocomets”) taken with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter (ALMA) radio telescope facilities. The stars in this study range in ages from very young to middle-aged like our Sun. This new study shows how comets play a role in the formation of stars and planetary systems. Credit: Luca Matra There are TRILLIONS OF COMETS - dirty, icy snowballs in all shapes and sizes - left over from the formation of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago located in the deep, dark outer limits of our solar system in the Oort Cloud. Astronomers have discovered "exocomets" - comets outside of our solar system - are quite common. From the news release: "New research has "This result reveals regions around 74 stars spanning a wide range of ages – from those recently formed to others billions of years old – showing how comets play a r...