Tuesday, November 19, 2019

How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of 'comet crumbs'

Scientists leveraged LISA Pathfinder's record-setting sensitivity (designed to ripples in space-time produced by, among other things, merging black holes) for a different purpose much closer to home -- mapping microscopic dust shed by comets and asteroids.

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