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8 Amazing Facts About the Dwarf Planet Pluto
For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...
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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
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The Facts Nearly Everyone Gets Wrong About Pluto
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Fun and interesting facts about space for kids
Sound as we know it does not exist in space. That’s because ... The distance from Earth to Pluto is 4.67 billion miles. The average passenger aircraft travels at 575 miles per hour.
7 lesser-known facts about our solar system
The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...
Who Are Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams? What to Know About the NASA Astronauts.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have nearly half a century of combined experience as astronauts. But this is just their third ...
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On 95th anniversary of Pluto discovery, its home observatory celebrates solar system’s underdog
FLAGSTAFF, Az. – Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating ...
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What is the solar system?
The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids, moons and dwarf planets such as Pluto. What's this ... to label it and add any facts that you know!