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
"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
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
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
