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Arrokoth the 'space snowman' probably tastes like sweet soap
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft radioed to Earth images of the farthest object ever explored: a snowman-shaped primordial object named Arrokoth, one of many frigid residents in the Kuiper Belt that ...
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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 ...
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New Horizons spacecraft 'alters theory of planet formation'
Scientists say they have "decisively" overturned the prevailing theory for how planets in our Solar System formed. The established view is that material violently crashed together to form ever ...
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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA
New Horizons is a nuclear-powered spacecraft ... 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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How Dark Is Space? Universe’s Glow Shows There Are Fewer Galaxies Than We Thought, Say Scientists
New Horizons' path of exploration. 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 to the Hubble ...
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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 ...