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
"These collisions that produce dust clouds happen in every planetary system," he said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026
The collisions occurred in the planetary system surrounding the star Fomalhaut, located about 25 light-years from Earth in the Piscis Austrinus constellation.
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
Aristarchus was the first person to hold that the Sun rather than the Earth is at the center of the planetary system, that all the planets go around the Sun rather than the Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
