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A cloud of carbon monoxide, which Earth’s radio telescopes found at a star 60 light years away from us indicates that a certain unknown body makes the comets collide with each other once every few minutes. Beta Painter, young a star that is 63 light years from the solar system, known as the owner of one planet – a kind of “superjupiter” almost a dozen masses heavier than our neighbor, and even for remoteness from a star resembling giant planets: from Beta Painter b to Beta Painter 1.2 billion km, which in our the system would correspond to the distance between Jupiter and Saturn. 
Photo from open sources Beta Painter System in view artist (here and below ESO illustrations). However, apart from the planet, in the system has a fragmented disk, the density of which is quite high and indirectly indicates recently completed (or still reaching) planet formation processes. A group of astronomers led by Bill Dent (Bill Dent) from the European Southern Observatory, using ALMA radio telescope, found in this disc a very unusual feature – compact cloud of carbon monoxide. It’s unusual because near the bright (an order of magnitude brighter than the Sun) spectral star class A such cloud, according to calculations, should completely collapse for 100 years, because its molecules simply burst with ultraviolet luminaries. Given that the system is 20 million years old, it’s clear that it’s either the consequences of a single collision, or education, constantly fueled by some regular events. But what can give rise to this carbon monoxide? The largest source of such kind in the young planetary system there must be clashes between icy bodies, the same comets, and larger ones – up to planetesimals. However, observations revealed such an amount of gas, which is difficult to combine with the cometary scenario: it turns out that in Beta Painters system, one large comet must collapse due to collisions every five minutes, and at least hundreds of thousands of years contract. This means that the density of comets there is unimaginably high. But even at a very high density to provoke this permanent cometary “war” requires some additional factor. 
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Carbon monoxide cloud (in the upper right corner) in the Beta system The painter through the eyes of the ALMA radio telescope. Not theoretically detected while the planet (about 50 AU from the star) can produce a similar the cloud in the opposite part of its path around the luminary, but the second cloud has yet to be found. Fact that the cloud located in a rather unusual place – 13 billion km from its stars three times farther than from Neptune to the Sun. To go here such intense collisions, the influence of a nearby planet is necessary. Astronomers speak of only two likely scenarios of such events: either a large planet weighing Saturn attracts to this area comet clouds, arranging in their vicinity a conveyor along the destruction of comets, or we see the result of a not long process, and a single collision of a pair of protoplanets from the icy planetesimals corresponding in size to Mars. Which of these hypotheses were not true, scientists have received very serious hopes for the discovery of another planet by Beta the Painter. And even a few. The study report is published in Science Express. Prepared based on materials from the University of Cambridge.
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