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Neptune's Clouds Are Vanishing - Hubble Space Telescope Reveals
Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...
Hubble reveals 20-year time-lapse of Uranus' changing atmosphere
An international team used 20 years of data and photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to study Uranus' atmosphere and ...
Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet in the Oort cloud
As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201” ...
Hubble Trouble Solved? Webb Telescope Finally Cracks the Universe’s Growth Mystery
Scientists have long puzzled over a discrepancy in how fast the universe is expanding, but new, sharper data from the James Webb Space Telescope may finally be solving the mystery. By refining ...
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Astronomers Discover a Possible Dwarf Planet Far Beyond Neptune, Where There Should Have Only Been Empty Space
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...
One dwarf, seven planets: Seven Earth-size planets in single system
The Hubble Space Telescope is continuing to unlock details about the Trappist-1 system, which includes four planets that could hold liquid water.