Though designed principally to observe remarkably faint objects throughout the universe — such as distant galaxies and planet - forming disks around young stars — ALMA is also capable of studying objects in our own solar system, including planets, comets, and now the Sun. (public.nrao.edu)
He has been working on comparative genomics using domestic animals as study objects the last 30 years. (agbt.org)
If so, Phoebe has given astronomers their first opportunity to study an object from distant space at close range. (discovermagazine.com)