Astrum on MSNOpinion
This tiny object in the Kuiper Belt broke every expectation
When New Horizons flew past Arrokoth in 2019, scientists expected a simple, battered object. What they saw instead was smooth ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...
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Why Is The The Kuiper Belt Important And What We Found There?
Kuiper is an outer region of the Solar System that extends from the orbit of the planet Neptune, called Edgeworth , about 30 astronomical units from the Sun, up to 50 astronomical units from the Sun; ...
The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...
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Scientists capture 51 images showing exoplanets coming together around other stars: 'This data set is an astronomical treasure'
The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.
Young star systems are a place of violent collisions. Rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects carom off one another and ...
Scientists spotted primordial cluster beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt (Image: Canva) Astronomers may have found a primordial cluster beyond Neptune. The icy bodies lie in the Kuiper Belt’s distant ...
Young star systems are a place of violent collisions. Rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects bounce off one another and ...
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Why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS' close Earth approach is an early Christmas gift for astronomers
Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.
This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...
Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or ...
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