SPACE: Comets Orbiting Beta Pictoris
May. 24th, 2019 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineThree of them so far, but I expect there to be many more. How many confirmed orbiting Sol so far, after all?
The article cites the distance from Sol as 63 light-years, but Bailer-Jones/GAIA DR2 puts it as 65. I look forward to more precise interstellar distance data, of course.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190522120525.htm
Sidebar: exoplanet.eu's current count as of 23 May 2019: 4071 exoplanets.
The article cites the distance from Sol as 63 light-years, but Bailer-Jones/GAIA DR2 puts it as 65. I look forward to more precise interstellar distance data, of course.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190522120525.htm
Sidebar: exoplanet.eu's current count as of 23 May 2019: 4071 exoplanets.