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Beyond Neptune, Icy Worlds Kept a 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Secret Nobody Expected

For the first time, astronomers have pointed NASA’s two flagship space telescopes at the same patch of sky beyond Neptune and let them work as a team. Hubble handled the visible light. Webb handled the infrared. Together, they picked out 27 previously unknown trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs β€” small, icy bodies that drift in the […]

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There’s a Faint Glow Opposite the Sun You’ve Probably Never Seen β€” and It Took Astronomers 300 Years to Explain

Picture a moonless night, far from any city. Look straight at the point in the sky opposite the Sun β€” the antisolar point, where the Sun would appear if you could see it through the Earth. There, faintly, you might make out an oval-shaped glow, 8 to 10 degrees across. For scale, that’s roughly the […]

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