Comet crystals found in a nearby planetary system, thanks to Herschel

Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 06:31 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—Pristine material that matches comets in our own Solar System have been found in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris by ESA's Herschel space observatory.

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