Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 11:35
in Astronomy & Space
New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nearest planetary system to our own has two asteroid belts. Our own solar system has just one.
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