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Heavy comet traffic around young star

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Environment of β Pictoris echoes Solar System’s turbulent early years.

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  1. Kiefer, F. et al. Nature 514, 462-464 (2014).

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Gibney, E. Heavy comet traffic around young star. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.16201

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