Abstract

The dust tails of comets similar to Hale-Bopp can scatter as much optical sunlight as does the Earth. Space-based observatories such as the Terrestrial Planet Finder or Darwin that will detect extrasolar terrestrial planets also will be able to detect extrasolar comets.

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