WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and BusinessAstronomers Are Closing In on the Kuiper Belt’s Secrets
Space.com: NASA, Space Exploration and Astronomy NewsFrom Pluto to Ceres: A dwarf planet word search
JdeBP@nazokiyoubinbou @wonderofscience
Of course the question is now why Pluto and Ceres were included in @Physicsj 's graphic and Eris and Sedna were not. (-:
The answer is, according to an old post, that Eris and Sedna had not yet been mapped.
Dr James O'Donoghue (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 video The planets to scale in every way... plus dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto, the only two mapped dwarf planets. The material from which all planets grew was orbiting the Sun. When growing planets attract this material, they get larger but also faster, as they also take on the material's momentum. That's why large planets like Jupiter are generally faster!
Cosmic LogA fictional Grand Tour portrays Pluto as it really is
NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has forced astronomers to rewrite their textbooks — but that's not all: New Horizons also forced Les Johnson to rewrite a novel.
The space scientist was tasked with taking notes that the famed science-f
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/10/31/a-fictional-grand-tour-portrays-pluto-as-it-really-is/
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This dwarf planet has gas: Makemake's methane surprises scientists
NASANASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-white-dwarf-eating-piece-of-pluto-like-object/ #NASA #AstrophysicsDivision #DwarfPlanets #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #TheKuiperBelt #WhiteDwarfs
Daniel PomarèdeNSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Orbitviewer App
New 3D, interactive visualization of planets and minor planets in our Solar System lets you explore Rubin discoveries in real time.
☑️ https://noirlab.edu/public/announcements/ann25014/
☑️ https://orbitviewer.app/
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A cousin for Pluto? New dwarf planet candidate found
Astrophysicists say they've identified an object beyond the orbit of Neptune that's likely to qualify as a dwarf planet, alongside other trans-Neptunian objects including Pluto, the erstwhile "ninth planet."
The discovery of 2017 OF201 touches upon another ninth-planet contr
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/05/22/a-cousin-for-pluto-new-dwarf-planet-candidate-found/
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UselessFactsBadlyDrawnUseless Facts, Badly Drawn #423: Quaoar.
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