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A new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports the detections of seven dark comets in two distinct populations, bringing the total of known dark comets to 14.

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Darryl Z. Seligman is supported by an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST-2303553. This research award is partially funded by a generous gift of Charles Simonyi to ...

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