planetary system
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An international group of astronomers has identified a faraway planetary system that calls into question one of the most widely accepted ideas about how planets take shape.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2026
"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
"Super puff planets are fairly rare, and when they do occur, they tend to be the only one in a planetary system," Libby-Roberts said.
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
