Spotlight shining on Pluto on cold outskirts of solar system
The spotlight is bright enough to thaw even Pluto.
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What is the Kuiper Belt?
Dr. Mike Brown is a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech. He's best known as the man who killed Pluto, thanks to his team's discovery of Eris and other Kuiper Belt Objects. We asked him to help us explain this unusual ...
Space Exploration
Jun 17, 2015
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Dark Energy Camera unveils small objects in solar system
The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, built at DOE's Fermilab and mounted on the 4-meter Victor Blanco Telescope in Chile, delivers some of the most detailed images of celestial objects. While about a third of the camera's ...
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2015
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It looks like these are all the bright Kuiper belt objects we'll ever find
The self-professed "Pluto Killer" is at it again. Dr. Michael Brown is now reminiscing about the good old days when one could scour through sky survey data and discover big bright objects in the Kuiper Belt. In his latest ...
Astronomy
Jan 13, 2015
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First observations of the surfaces of objects from the Oort Cloud
(Phys.org) —Astronomers are announcing today the discovery of two unusual objects in comet-like orbits that originate in the Oort cloud but with almost no activity, giving scientists a first look at their surfaces. These ...
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2014
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New Horizons sights tiny Pluto moon as spacecraft races toward dwarf planet
Here's Hydra! The New Horizons team spotted the tiny moon of Pluto in July, about six months ahead of when they expected to. You can check it out in the images below. The find is exciting in itself, but it also bodes well ...
Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2014
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Hubble to proceed with full search for New Horizons targets
(Phys.org) —NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been given the go-ahead to conduct an intensive search for a suitable outer solar system object that the New Horizons (NH) spacecraft could visit after the probe streaks though ...
Astronomy
Jul 2, 2014
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Hubble seeks follow-up target for New Horizons after Pluto
It's going to be a really busy summer for the New Horizons team. While they're checking out the newly awakened spacecraft to make sure it's working properly for its close encounter with Pluto next year, NASA is already thinking ...
Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2014
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NASA seeks Kuiper Belt Objects for New Horizon's post-Pluto mission
Are you ready for the summer of 2015? A showdown of epic proportions is in the making, as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to pass within 12,500 kilometres of Pluto—roughly a third of the distance of the ring of ...
Space Exploration
May 8, 2014
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Some planet-like Kuiper belt objects don't play "nice"
The Kuiper belt—the region beyond the orbit of Neptune inhabited by a number of small bodies of rock and ice—hides many clues about the early days of the Solar System. According to the standard picture of Solar System ...
Astronomy
Jan 17, 2014
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