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New Dwarf Planet Discovered
A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what ...
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How a Newly Found Dwarf Planet Could Rewrite the Solar System
Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it ...
The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.
"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...
In new research published in Science, a team of astronomers report the detection of a surprising substance in a brown dwarf known as Wolf 1130C: a chemical called phosphine, which has been the focus ...
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