Tag: icy world
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A Tiny, Icy World Could Rewrite Our View of the Solar System’s Past
Unveiling a New Quiet Giant of the Outer Solar System In the far reaches beyond Neptune, a newly identified trans-Neptunian object (TNO) has researchers buzzing about what it might reveal about the early days of our solar system. While it may be small by planetary standards, its composition, orbit, and behavior hold the potential to…
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White Dwarf Swallows Pluto-Like Icy World: Implications for Habitable Planets
New finding from Hubble reveals a white dwarf feasting on an icy Pluto-like world Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a striking example of a white dwarf—one of the universe’s most compact stellar remnants—appearing to have consumed an icy, Pluto-like body. The star resides in the Milky Way, roughly 255 light-years from Earth,…