Two Exocomet Families Found Around Baby Star System

astroengine writes Scientists have found two families of comets in the developing Beta Pictoris star system, located about 64 light-years from Earth, including one group that appears to be remnants of a smashed-up protoplanet. The discovery bolsters our theoretical understanding of the violent processes that led to the formation of Earth and the other terrestrial planets in the solar system. "If you look back at the solar system when it was only 22 million years old, you might have seen phenomena that's a like more like what's happening in Beta Pic," astrophysicist Aki Roberge, with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., told Discovery News.

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[Anonymous Coward]

64 MILLION light years you say? Looks like there's no need to ever invest another dime in planet-finding equipment if we can already image comets around an individual star in a galaxy that's 32 times farther away than Andromeda.

Either that or Samzenpus is an idiot who makes a fine example of why the minimum wage is too high.