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
With a mass similar to Saturn, the researchers suggest that it most likely formed within a planetary system rather than developing on its own like a small star or brown dwarf.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2026
An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density "super-puff" planets has at least one more planet, according to new research led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
Similarly, Ptolemy had demonstrated that no homocentric planetary system could account for the observed phenomena, but philosophers were still trying to produce such a system well into the sixteenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
