Temple-Tuttle orbits the Sun every 33 years, and during its closest approach the heat of the Sun causes some of the comet's ice to bubble off, taking some dusty debris with it.
Challenging observations made only 11 days ago, the Voyager 2 spacecraft transmitted new photographs today showing a tenuous but complete ring of dusty debris circling Neptune.
While much of the area around the school looked relatively unscathed, the school itself was reduced to dusty debris and flattened to a fraction of its former size.
This star displays an excess emission of infrared radiation, suggesting the presence of an disk of dusty debris.
Instead, the disks were frequently replenished by dusty debris from repeated collisions of large rocky objects.
The discovery of a complete ring of dusty debris near the planet, announced Tuesday, prompted a more thorough examination of images showing an apparently partial ring farther out from the planet.
The dusty debris of deep space tumbled and churned, falling into the grip of the hypermass.
They walked through the dusty debris of her family's past, among the piled crates and past the stacked boxes and faded labels and yellowing lists tied and pinned to the assorted containers.
Scientists hope the dusty debris would provide fresh insights into the origin of the 27km-wide moon, which many scientists suspect may actually be a captured asteroid.
The dusty debris falling over her was becoming more liquid, she thought, and warmer too.