Hunting exocomets. The study: “Exocomets: A spectroscopic survey” of I. Rebollido (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) recently appeared on Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Solar System is populated by a variety of objects: gaseous giants, rocky planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and dust. To date, more than 4000 planets orbiting around other stars were identified, and the presence of planets seems to be ubiquitous in stars of our Galaxy. Are the other class of objects that we observe in the Solar System
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