Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Heavy metal vapors unexpectedly found in comets throughout our Solar System

Munich, Germany (SPX) May 20, 2021
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) has shown that iron and nickel exist in the atmospheres of comets throughout our Solar System, even those far from the Sun. A separate study by a Polish team, who also used ESO data, reported that nickel vapour is also present in the icy interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. This is the fi

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