
Observations from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have revealed that mature planetary systems -- dusty disks of asteroids, comets and possibly planets -- are more frequent around close-knit twin, or binary, stars than single stars like our sun.
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PIA09228
Date Created
March 29, 2007
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JPL
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