Sentences with phrase «swarm of comets»

During its travels, Jupiter flung swarms of those comets on paths that ran right into the still - forming Earth.

This artist's concept illustrates a massive swarm of comets (right) in the Beta Pictoris planetary system.

Astronomers may have spotted the first known resident of a huge swarm of comets thought to encircle the sun.

So this makes their detection more probable than one - off events like planetary collisions or never observed events like swarms of comet fragments.

As an alien sun blazes through its death throes, it is apparently vaporizing a surrounding swarm of comets, releasing a huge cloud of water vapor.

Their wide - ranging list included colliding asteroids, a shattered planet and a swarm of comets.

Tabby's star's odd blinking and fading has been put down to alien signals and swarms of comets, but devouring a planet could explain everything

Previous research with Spitzer and NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer suggested a swarm of comets may be to blame for the short - period dimming.