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Pluto may have ‘kissed’ Charon to capture it
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA
NASA has given a new lease of life to its New ... which was later named Arrokoth. The object is about four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth and the most distant object ever ...
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Simulation of factors that led to Arrokoth's red color suggest its surface is rich in sugars
In 2019, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed by Arrokoth, a planetoid in the Kuiper Belt, which circles the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. Researchers on the project discovered that the ...
'Kiss and capture': Scientists propose new explanation for Charon, Pluto's largest moon
Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...
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Red world is rich in sugars similar to those found in human cells
At 4 billion miles away from the sun, Arrokoth is 'too cold to support life as we know it', NASA says. But the new findings suggest smaller comets could have transported sugar molecules required ...
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Christmas Tree Clusters and Cosmic Wreaths: How NASA Celebrates Christmas in the Cosmos
Christmas is here, and so are brand new images of some of the most beautiful holiday-inspired celestial views in the visible ...
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How Dark Is Space? Universe’s Glow Shows There Are Fewer Galaxies Than We Thought, Say Scientists
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft beyond Pluto ... By using LORRI’s data from beyond Arrokoth, the scientists were able to make use of a sky about 10 times darker than the darkest sky accessible ...