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In the cold, distant reaches of the Solar System, far beyond Pluto, astronomers have just identified what could be a new dwarf planet. It's called 2017 OF 201, a rock that appears to be some 700 ...
Astronomers discovered a distant dwarf planet, 2017 OF21, far beyond Pluto. Taking 25,000 years to orbit the Sun, its methane and nitrogen ice, reddish surface, and extreme distance hint at a hidden ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the first ...