...possibly the first confirmed interstellar comet to visit the Solar System – hit the headlines last week, astronomers using ...second such interstellar object to be identified whizzing through the Solar System; the first, 'Oumuamua, was spotted in 2017. ...
... it another way, CO is more than three times higher than previously measured for any comet in the inner (<2.5 au) Solar System. Because the comet is so rich in CO, it likely originated in a very cold region probably beyond the CO ice-line in a region...
...volatile-rich species that likely originated from the outer Solar System. Overall, say the international teams of scientists behind...the cooling protoplanetary disk which eventually became our Solar System. Isotopic compositions of CAIs show that they ...
... interstellar visitor, an object dubbed ‘Oumuamua, swung within 38 million kilometres of the Sun before racing out of the Solar System. “Whereas ‘Oumuamua looked like a bare rock, Borisov is really active, more like a normal comet. It’s a puzzle why...
...the formation of discs that can rival the size of the Solar System The origins of a protoplanetary disc start in the relatively small ... of discs that can rival the size of the Solar System and above, suggesting that such discs are initially quite...
... on the type of host star; thermal emission dominates at longer wavelengths. From studying planets within our own Solar System, we have found that we need observations in multiple spectral bands with different intensities for a robust analysis of any...