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NASA’s Hubble, Webb Find Far-out Solar System Objects ‘Remember’ Past
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Scientists combined observations from NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to examine distant Trans‑Neptunian Objects, revealing some of the faintest and smallest such bodies ever directly imaged. The study unexpectedly found fewer small TNOs than predicted by existing models.
WHY IT MATTERS
The result challenges current theories about the size distribution of Kuiper Belt objects, impacting our understanding of solar‑system formation.
For the first time, scientists used the joint power of NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of the most far-flung bodies in our solar system, Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Some of these are the smallest and faintest ever directly seen. The researchers unexpectedly found fewer small TNOs than they expected, and that […]
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