“..NASA Spots Mysterious Space Debris..” (PHOTO)
“..NASA scientists have spotted a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern with trailing streamers of dust that is unlike any image astronomers have seen before.
The behavior is not typical of comets, UCLA investigator David Jewitt explains, and researchers believe something unprecedented has been spotted:
This is quite different from the smooth dust envelopes of normal comets. […]
The filaments are made of dust and gravel, presumably recently thrown out of the nucleus.
Some are swept back by radiation pressure from sunlight to create straight dust streaks.
Embedded in the filaments are co-moving blobs of dust that likely originated from tiny unseen parent bodies..”
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