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About 25 light-years away, there is a relatively youthful star named Fomalhaut that is twice the size of our sun and projects a ring of dust around it. Scientists have concluded that the dusty disc is formed by thousands of comet collisions each day.
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When we look up at a comet in the night sky, it may be a 'stolen pleasure: we may be looking at something that comes originally from a distant star.
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The Deep Impact spacecraft has beamed down the first of more than 64,000 images it is expected to take of Comet Hartley 2. The spacecraft will fly by the comet in two months, on Nov. 4, 2010.
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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) captured magnificent cosmic activities such as the wispy comet, a bursting star-forming cloud, Andromeda galaxy and a faraway cluster of hundreds of galaxies.
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The Global Catastrophic Risks conference started yesterday morning and death by asteroids, comets and gamma ray bursts was on the agenda as experts discussed the statistical likelihood of these types of global catastrophes.
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Comets Headlines
NASA SOHO probe watches Comet Lovejoy graze sun's disc.
Backwards-flying, green comet makes its closest approach to Earth today.
More than 300 jobs are under threat at Comet's call centre in Hull, the electrical company announces.
Microsoft says it is suing the electrical retailer Comet for allegedly producing and selling 94,000 counterfeit Windows recovery CDs.
Comet Lovejoy, plunging toward the sun as NASA spacecraft watched, was expected to be vaporized by the sun's heat. Instead it survived, missing the sun by less than 90,000 miles. It was observed this morning heading back into deep space.
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NASA, D. Jewitt- UCLA
The Hubble telescope captured this image of P/2010 A2 January 29, 2010. The X-shaped object at the head of the comet has been photographed continously since it was first spotted in January by the Hubble.
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