"Astronomers report that they've found a flock of comets passing in front of a star outside our own Solar System."
Observations of RZ Piscium show repeated, irregular dips in starlight produced by transiting debris. Analysis attributes the dimming patterns to at least 24 small, comet-like bodies on intersecting orbits, causing short-duration occultations and variable dust production. The system exhibits rapid changes in brightness consistent with fragmented objects producing dusty tails. The inferred swarm suggests active fragmentation or a recent collisional event, offering insight into dynamic debris environments around young or evolved stars and the processes that generate transient circumstellar dust.
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