nasa斯必泽太空望远镜的资料,资料显示这颗明亮的恒星周围环绕着一个尘埃带,其中的物质包含水冰、有机物和岩石,跟碰撞后粉碎的彗星物质极为相似。
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope showing a band of dust around the bright star that strongly matches the contents-such as water ice, organics, and rock-of a comet busted apart in a collision.
在北半球最近碰撞形成的五个陨石坑掀起的岩屑中,发现了埋藏的冰。
The buried ice was spotted in debris thrown up in five recent northern hemisphere impact craters.
一开始你可能不会这样认为,因为太阳系里和彗星发生过碰撞的行星都比火星还远,在那样的轨道上水永远是以冰的形式存在。
On first blush, you might think not: the planet where the comet or comets came to grief is farther out than Mars, in an orbit where water would be permanently frozen.
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