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How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.
JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...
JWST finally detects radiation from Pluto that conclusively determines that Pluto's haze indeed impacts its climate.
OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is ...
For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have peered into a mysterious, blue haze cloaking the surface of Pluto — and ...
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals new details about Pluto's climate. Data confirms that Pluto's haze regulates its ...
In the study titled, Evidence of haze control of Pluto's atmospheric heat balance from JWST/MIRI thermal light curves, astronomers revealed that they detected and measured the thermal emission of ...
Researchers believe that 2017 OF201s highly eccentric orbit points to a chaotic origin, possibly caused by a gravitational ...
New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, ...
Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays a ...