Exocomet
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exocomet-190-4293504
title:
Exocomet
text:
An exocomet, or extrasolar comet, is a comet outside the Solar System, which includes rogue comets and comets that orbit stars other than the Sun. The first exocomets were detected in 1987 around Beta Pictoris, a very young A-type main-sequence star. There are now a total of 27 stars around which exocomets have been observed or suspected. The majority of discovered exocometary systems are around very young A-type stars. The relatively old shell star Phi Leonis shows evidence of exocomets in the
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Comet outside the Solar System
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocomet
date created:
2013-01-08T20:38:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T15:21:37Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/NASA-ExocometsAroundBetaPictoris-ArtistView.jpg","width":800,"height":538}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16