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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
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Astronomers Believe A Dwarf Planet In The Middle Of Our Solar System Has Crust That's 90% Ice, Meaning The Giant Asteroid May Have Once Been Covered With Mu…
Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...
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Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth
MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...
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Ceres, The Closest Dwarf Planet In Our Solar System To The Sun, May Have Originated Right In The Asteroid Belt
There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, ...
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Astronomer Mike Brown on the Solar System's Outer Reaches
Best known for driving demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet, astronomer Mike Brown discusses the next horizons in our solar system, including the hunt for the elusive Planet 9. This article was ...