Astrophysicist Flavien Kiefer (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France) talks about the detection of exocomets in the Beta-Pictoris system. He is leading an observational programme at the European Southern Observatory in support of PicSat. This programme uses the ESO HARPS instrument at the 3.6 meter telescope at La Silla, Chile.

Also see https://picsat.obspm.fr/science/scien... for science references.

With many thanks to Jean Mouette from the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris for technical support with the interview.