https://www.europesays.com/no/366520/ Flytende nitrogen kan nylig ha rent over Plutos hjerteformede isbre – Martin Cid Magazine NO #AlanStern #KuiperBelt #LiquidNitrogen #NewHorizons #NO #Norge #Norway #Pluto #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #ScienceAndTechnology #SouthwestResearchInstitute #SputnikPlanitia #Technology #Teknologi #Vitenskap #VitenskapOgTeknologi #Vitenskapteknologi
#kuiperbelt — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kuiperbelt, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🪐❄️ #Pluto’s reclassification as a #dwarfplanet in 2006 continues to prompt debate.
Scientists disagree about the #IAU’s definition of a #planet, particularly its requirement that a planet clear its orbital neighborhood. The discussion also considers #Eris, #NewHorizons #findings, and competing approaches to classifying worlds in the #solarsystem.
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#SciAM:
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Pluto still isn’t a planet—unless Earth’s moon is, too
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"On the 20th anniversary of Pluto’s infamous demotion, Mike “Pluto Killer” Brown explains why any reversal of that decision would be driven more by nostalgia than science"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sorry-plutos-still-not-a-planet/
24.8.2026
#134340Pluto #Astronomie #Astronomy #DwarfPlanet #Himmelskörper #KuiperBelt #Moon #Mond #Nostalgia #Planet #Pluto #Science #Wissenschaft
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/629592/ Liquid Nitrogen May Have Flowed on Pluto’s Surface in Recent Past #(planet) #DwarfPlanet #Éire #ERIS #fluid #IE #Ireland #KuiperBelt #liquid #nasa #NewHorizons #nitrogen #Pluto #Science #SolarSystem #SputnikPlanitia #TombaughRegio #Triton
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Long After #Pluto Fly-By, #NASA's #NewHorizon's Probe Wakes Up Again, Starts Doing New Science, nearly 6 billion miles from Earth. It is ready to transmit a stream of science data gathered during hibernation from its location in the region of icy objects known as #KuiperBelt.
#Spacecraft also measures the distribution of gas in the outer #heliosphere, the expansive, protective bubble formed by a steady stream of particles that release from the sun called the #solarwind.
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/594310/ NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation #Éire #HibernationPeriod #IE #Ireland #KuiperBelt #MissionControllers #nasa #NewHorizons #Science #SolarSystem #Space #SystemChecks
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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation
NEED TO KNOW The spacecraft emerged from a 321-day hibernation 5.9 billion miles from Earth, with signals taking…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #hibernationperiod #KuiperBelt #missioncontrollers #NASA #NewHorizons #Science #solarsystem #systemchecks
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Pluto flyby mission wakes up after long sleep nearly 6 billion miles from Earth
A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has awakened from its…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #AppliedPhysicsLaboratory #JohnsHopkinsAppliedPhysicsLaboratory #KuiperBelt #NewHorizons #Pluto #PontusBrandt #solarsystem
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An ancient moonpocalypse may explain #Neptune’s odd #moon #Nereid
The strange satellite was born in a steady, circular orbit around Neptune, then tossed into its elongated orbit during a chaotic encounter with a #Pluto-sized body that ejected or pulverized all its sibling #moons. This idea counters assumption that Nereid formed in #KuiperBelt, the cold reservoir of #space rocks in outer #solarsystem, and was pitched into its present orbit later.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neptunes-odd-moon-nereid-orbit-remnant
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NASA’s New Horizons Wakes Up From Hibernation Beyond Pluto, More Than 10 Billion Kilometers from Earth
Artist’s rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its three moons. Credit: NASA. Whomst has awakened…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #Arrokoth #Heliosphere #interstellarspace #KuiperBelt #NASA #NewHorizons #outersolarsystem #Pluto #Science #SpaceExploration #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/578741/ NASA’s New Horizons Wakes Up From Hibernation Beyond Pluto, More Than 10 Billion Kilometers from Earth #Arrokoth #Éire #Heliosphere #IE #InterstellarSpace #Ireland #KuiperBelt #nasa #NewHorizons #OuterSolarSystem #Pluto #Science #SpaceExploration
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/547483/ Scientists Discover Possible Atmosphere Around Tiny Icy World Beyond Neptune #2002XV93 #Atmoshphere #Éire #IE #Ireland #KuiperBelt #Neptune #Science #ScienceNews #Space #TransNeptunianObjects #Viral
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I hope we live long enough to witness and discover what JWST knows about the Altjira system in its "eclipsing season" which is scheduled to survey the next 10 years (9 now), where the outer body will be frequently positioned between the inner body and the sun to confirm whether it's a triple system. It's currently classified as a binary system.
This news are not new but the read is fantastic if you are into celestial objects - NASA statement from last year:
NASA’s Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
#ThreeBodyProblem #HidingInPlainSight #TripleSystem #JWST #Altjira #KuiperBelt #Space
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https://www.europesays.com/at/177356/ JWST- Spektren: Nereid bleibt Neptuns einziger ursprünglicher Mond #AT #Austria #JWST #KuiperBelt #Neptune #Nereid #Orbits #Österreich #Science #Science&Technology #SolarSystem #Spectroscopy #Technik #Technology #Telescope #Triton #Voyager #Wissenschaft #Wissenschaft&Technik
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"Pluto-like world’s thin atmosphere poses a mystery" by @cosmiclog / @alanboyle - A thin atmosphere may have been observed around a #KuiperBelt object a quarter Pluto's size. As the minor planet crossed in front of a star, telescopes saw light go out and come back slowly rather than instantly. And since Alan is author of "The Case for Pluto" book, he mentions a recent public discussion among politicians about reclassifying Pluto as a planet. https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/08/pluto-like-worlds-thin-atmosphere-poses-a-mystery/ #astronomy #planetary #science
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Just catching up with this week's big news from the #KuiperBelt - about a mini-world that shouldn't have an atmosphere but apparently does. I also manage to wedge in a word about #Pluto. https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/08/pluto-like-worlds-thin-atmosphere-poses-a-mystery/ #Space #TNO
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Pluto-like world’s thin atmosphere poses a mystery
Scientists are puzzling over another oddball on the edge of the solar system: This time, it's an icy object less than a quarter of Pluto's size with a thin atmosphere – a layer of gas that's not typically found around objects so small.A Japanese team of researchers — including an amate
https://cosmiclog.com/2026/05/08/pluto-like-worlds-thin-atmosphere-poses-a-mystery/
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Strange atmosphere detected on small icy world beyond Pluto
A star blinked in a strange way over Japan last January, and that flicker may have exposed something…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #2002XV93 #Astronomy #Atmosphere #AU #Australia #Cosmology #dwarfplanet #KuiperBelt #NationalAstronomicalObservatoryofJapan’sIshigakijimaAstronomicalObservatory #Pluto #research #SolarSystem #SpaceNews
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10-Year-Old Writes To NASA To Restore Pluto’s Planet Status, Agency Responds
A handwritten letter by a 10-year-old girl has captured widespread attention online after she made an emotional and…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #10yearoldgirl #AU #Australia #handwrittenletter #KuiperBelt #MakePlutoPlanetAgain #NASA #Pluto #Science #SolarSystem
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Could a hidden giant be tugging at the edges of our Solar System? Watch NOVA/PBS break down the evidence for Planet Nine — gripping detective work in the Kuiper Belt! Fascinating science, visuals, and big implications. #PlanetNine #KuiperBelt #astronomy #space #science #NOVA #PBS #SolarSystem #planets #English
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Astronomers Prepare for New Discoveries in the Kuiper Belt
📰 Original title: Astronomers Are Closing In on the Kuiper Belt’s Secrets
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/astronomers-prepare-for-new-discoveries-in-the-kuiper-belt/?redirpost=6079678a-6cc8-4ff9-a554-ca98943872b8
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New Simulations Explain Snowman Shape of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth
Why does Arrokoth, a Kuiper Belt object, look like a snowman? New simulations show it formed by gravitational collapse, not just collisions.
#Arrokoth #KuiperBelt #SpaceFormation #SolarSystem #PlanetaryScience
https://newsletter.tf/why-arrokoth-kuiper-belt-object-has-snowman-shape/
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Arrokoth's snowman shape is now explained by new computer models. This is different from older ideas that focused on space object crashes.
#Arrokoth #KuiperBelt #SpaceFormation #SolarSystem #PlanetaryScience
https://newsletter.tf/why-arrokoth-kuiper-belt-object-has-snowman-shape/
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❄️ Beyond Neptune lies a twilight realm where sunlight becomes memory, and many ice worlds orbit for longer than human civilization has existed. What secrets do these frozen time capsules preserve?
✍️ Journey to the edge: https://TPC8.short.gy/5N5UMSY7
🌌 Where knowledge itself begins to soften
#KuiperBelt #Astronomy #SolarSystem #PlutoAndBeyond #OuterSolarSystem #PlanetaryScience #TPC8
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/352145/ Scientists Finally Know How a Bizarre Snowman Shaped Space Rock Formed at the Edge of the Solar system #Arrokoth #Éire #IE #Ireland #KuiperBelt #NewHorizon #Science
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https://www.europesays.com/2800063/ Scientists Finally Know How a Zizarre Snowman Shaped Space Rock Formed at the Edge of the Solar system #Arrokoth #KuiperBelt #NewHorizon #space
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/351469/ New simulations reveal the hidden forces shaping ‘snowman’ worlds beyond Neptune #Arrokoth #Astronomy #ContactBinaries #Éire #GravitationalCollapse #IE #Ireland #KuiperBelt #MNRAS #NewHorizons #PKDGRAV #PlanetaryFormation #PlanetaryScience #planetesimals #Research #Science #SolarSystemFormation #SpaceNews #SSDEM
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Trans-Neptunian Object Quaoar Has Two Moons, New Study Suggests
The newly-discovered moon has an estimated diameter of 38 km (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28,…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #dwarfplanet #KuiperBelt #Minorplanet #Quaoar #Quaoar’sring #Science #SolarSystem #Trans-Neptunianobject
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/198506/ Trans-Neptunian Object Quaoar Has Two Moons, New Study Suggests #DwarfPlanet #Éire #IE #Ireland #KuiperBelt #MinorPlanet #Quaoar #Quaoar’sRing #Science #SolarSystem #TransNeptunianObject
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/197362/ Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System #AmirSiraj #AstronomicalUnits #Éire #IE #Ireland #KuiperBelt #NewScientist #Science #SolarSystem #Space
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Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AmirSiraj #astronomicalunits #CA #Canada #KuiperBelt #NewScientist #Science #SolarSystem
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Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System
Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AmirSiraj #astronomicalunits #AU #Australia #KuiperBelt #NewScientist #Science #SolarSystem
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"This spacecraft is so far away, it sees stars differently. Here's how it could help us navigate the cosmos" by BBC @skyatnightmag - Using parallax to compare different perspectives of telescopes on Earth and aboard the #NASA #NewHorizons probe in the #KuiperBelt, astronomers confirmed the stars Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 appear at slightly different but mathematically expected angles against more distant background stars. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/new-horizons-stellar-parallax-experiment #astronomy #science
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Measuring the mean plane of the distant Kuiper belt: https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/543/1/L27/8239273 -> A Survey of the #KuiperBelt Hints at an Unseen Planet: https://eos.org/articles/a-survey-of-the-kuiper-belt-hints-at-an-unseen-planet - an analysis of more than 150 objects in the far reaches of the solar system suggests that a planet more massive than Mercury could be lurking beyond the orbit of Pluto.
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A Survey of the Kuiper Belt Hints at an Unseen Planet
An analysis of more than 150 objects in the far reaches of the solar system suggests that a planet more massive than Mercury could be lurking beyond the orbit of Pluto. Suggested name: Planet Y.
https://eos.org/articles/a-survey-of-the-kuiper-belt-hints-at-an-unseen-planet
#PlanetY #KuiperBelt #planet #planets #astrodon #astronomy #space #science #news
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The hunt for ‘planet nine’: why there could still be something massive at the edge of the Solar System
#Astronomy #Pluto #Neptune #Planet9 #SolarSystem #KuiperBelt #SpaceDiscovery #PlanetX #OuterSpace #Astrophysics #NASA #Sednoid #SpaceExploration
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Evidence of controversial #Planet9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
If the object really is #PlanetNine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.
Planet Nine was put forward in 2016 by Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin of the California Institute of Technology to explain an unusual bunching of orbits of some objects in the #KuiperBelt, such as #Sedna.
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The discovery 🔭 has significant consequences for the understanding of those areas in the #SolarSystem behind the orbit of #Neptune. Until now, it had been assumed that although the #KuiperBelt exists there, it is “essentially empty” behind it. The discovery now suggests that this is not the case. Instead, there could be around 100 other objects that are similar in size 📏 and orbit to #2017OF https://www.heise.de/en/news/Possible-dwarf-planet-celestial-body-with-extreme-orbit-behind-Neptune-found-10397288.html
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"A cousin for Pluto? New dwarf planet candidate found" by @cosmiclog / @alanboyle - A computer search of archives telescope images determined Kuiper Belt Object 2017 OF201 was actually observed many more times since discovery, now with enough info to determine its orbit and a rough size. The size estimate makes it big enough to expect it has a round planetary shape. https://cosmiclog.com/2025/05/22/a-cousin-for-pluto-new-dwarf-planet-candidate-found/ #astronomy #KuiperBelt #space
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As one avenue to Planet 9 closes so another one could open, this latest object will help some theories while quash others, such is the beauty of Science.
And do not anthropomorphise Pluto, it's just a minor planet, not a sad puppy being demoted.https://cosmiclog.com/2025/05/22/a-cousin-for-pluto-new-dwarf-planet-candidate-found/
#KuiperBelt #MinorPlanets #2017OF201 #Planet9 #Astronomy #Space
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The Kuiper Belt is a region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune.
📸 Space Advances
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After writing a book about a #KuiperBelt object called #Pluto more than 15 years ago, I just had to write about a set of three (or maybe two?) Kuiper Belt objects that have stirred up quite a bit of curiosity. https://cosmiclog.com/2025/03/04/hubble-spots-potential-threesome-on-solar-systems-edge/ #Hubble #Space
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Hubble spots potential threesome on solar system’s edge
Three bodies? No problem!The "three-body problem" has traditionally referred to the devilishly tricky challenge of working out the trajectories of three objects orbiting each other in space. The concept has inspired a sci-fi trilogy about an alien invasion, plus a Netflix serie
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/03/04/hubble-spots-potential-threesome-on-solar-systems-edge/
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Trans-Neptunian Object Altjira Is Likely a Hierarchical Triple Discovered through Non-Keplerian Motion: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad864d -> NASA's Hubble Finds #KuiperBelt Duo May Be Trio: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-007 and https://esahubble.org/images/opo2507/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-finds-kuiper-belt-duo-may-be-trio/
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@aturff @Spacecom @simonbp Trivia: the rock band Queen released a celebratory music video in advance of the accomplishment of #NASA's #NewHorizons Jan 1, 2019 fly-by of Ultima Thule (later officially named Arrokoth) in the #KuiperBelt, the farthest fly-by of any celestial object so far. Why? The band's guitarist Dr Brian May was one of the astronomers on the New Horizons team. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Jm5POCAj8 #astronomy #space #music
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"Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of 'termination shock'" by @Spacecom - NH probe conserving fuel in case another #KBO #KuiperBelt object is found within range for a fly-by. But collecting #science data while crossing the "termination shock" at the end of the solar wind's influence around 2027 or later is currently the next plan for #NASA #NewHorizons. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/new-horizons/leaving-pluto-in-the-dust-new-horizons-probe-gearing-up-for-epic-crossing-of-termination-shock #astronomy #space
