The discovery of an atmosphere on a tiny Kuiper belt world
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If we go into the mysteries of space, deep exploration always keeps secrets in its dark zones. In this case it is time to go beyond Neptune, where an immense ring of ice and rock hides rare geological dynamics. In this distant environment and close to Pluto, astronomers already took for granted the unshakable physical laws of minor objects. However, a recent Japanese observation project brought down this consolidated theoretical belief. A tiny c…
The discovery of an atmosphere on a tiny Kuiper belt world
In science, no matter how confident we are in our theories, there’s no substitute for interrogating the natural world by asking it questions about itself directly: through observation and experiment. Sometimes, that requires setting up conditions in a laboratory to create certain events whose outcomes we can measure to whatever precision we desire. At other times, however, it requires looking out into space — at the natural laboratory of the Uni…
Beyond Neptune, in a cold near the -230 °C, this celestial body without a real name (or almost) has just invalidated one of the founding assumptions of contemporary planetology.
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