Two families of comets found around nearby star Beta Pictoris

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 12:00 in Astronomy & Space

Beta Pictoris is a young star located about 63 light-years from the Sun. It is only about 20 million years old and is surrounded by a huge disc of material—a very active young planetary system where gas and dust are produced by the evaporation of comets and the collisions of asteroids.

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