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    The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

    Interstellar comets offer direct samples of volatiles from distant protoplanetary disks. 2I/Borisov is the first notably active interstellar comet discovered in our Solar System1. Comets are condensed samples of ...

    D. Bodewits, J. W. Noonan, P. D. Feldman, M. T. Bannister in Nature Astronomy (2020)

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    Bilobate comet morphology and internal structure controlled by shear deformation

    Bilobate comets—small icy bodies with two distinct lobes—are a common configuration among comets, but the factors sha** these bodies are largely unknown. Cometary nuclei, the solid centres of comets, erode b...

    C. Matonti, N. Attree, O. Groussin, L. Jorda, S. Viseur, S. F. Hviid in Nature Geoscience (2019)

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    Coma morphology of comet 67P controlled by insolation over irregular nucleus

    While the structural complexity of cometary comae is already recognizable from telescopic observations1, the innermost region, within a few radii of the nucleus, was not resolved until spacecraft exploration beca...

    X. Shi, X. Hu, S. Mottola, H. Sierks, H. U. Keller, M. Rose, C. Güttler in Nature Astronomy (2018)

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    Imaging Plasma Density Structures in the Soft X-Rays Generated by Solar Wind Charge Exchange with Neutrals

    Both heliophysics and planetary physics seek to understand the complex nature of the solar wind’s interaction with solar system obstacles like Earth’s magnetosphere, the ionospheres of Venus and Mars, and come...

    David G. Sibeck, R. Allen, H. Aryan, D. Bodewits, P. Brandt in Space Science Reviews (2018)