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1 day ago · Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most- massive known object to directly orbit the Sun .
- Pluto (Mythology)
1st century sculpture of Pluto in the Getty Villa. In...
- Grand Tack Hypothesis
The "Mars problem" is a conflict between some simulations of...
- Scattered Disk
The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant...
- Dwarf Planet
A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in...
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- Eris
Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most...
- Geography of Pluto
The geography of Pluto refers to the study and mapping of...
- Tombaugh Regio
Tombaugh Regio (/ ˈ t ɒ m b aʊ ˈ r ɛ dʒ i oʊ /), sometimes...
- Charon
Charon (/ ˈ k ɛər ɒ n,-ə n / KAIR-on, -ən or / ˈ ʃ ær ə n /...
- Pluto (Mythology)
5 days ago · Gonggong (minor-planet designation: 225088 Gonggong) is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. It has a highly eccentric and inclined orbit during which it ranges from 34–101 astronomical units (5.1–15.1 billion kilometers; 3.2–9.4 billion miles) from the Sun.
- 17 July 2007
- Palomar Obs.
- (225088) Gonggong
3 days ago · Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was discovered in 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh and was considered the ninth planet in the solar system until it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.
1 day ago · The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V), informally called a yellow dwarf, though its light is actually white. It formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud.
7 hours ago · JWST has directly imaged what appear to be two giant exoplanets orbiting white dwarf stars. This discovery has important implications for the fate of our solar system's giant planets as the Sun evolves into a red giant and eventually becomes a white dwarf. The fate of most stars While bright supernova explosions demand our attention
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2 days ago · Surface temp. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan -coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, which in astronomy is called 'ice' or volatiles.
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- −0.71833 d, −17 h 14 min 24 s, (retrograde)
- 2.59 km/s, 9,320 km/h
5 days ago · 01 Astronomers discovered Pluto as the 9th planet in the solar system in 1930. 02 Pluto has a width of around 1,400 mi. and a radius of 715 mi. 03 Aged 4.6 billion years, Pluto is as old as the rest of the solar system. 04 By mass, Pluto consists of 30-50% ice and 50-70% rock. 05 Pluto has no rings. Table of Contents. Pluto Facts Infographics.
