UVic Researchers Use Tiny Icy Bodies to Study Planet Formation
Researchers found similar size patterns and surface colours among trans-Neptunian objects, using James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope data to study bodies as small as 10 km.
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Astronomers coordinating the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope examined 27 newly discovered trans-Neptunian objects to evaluate the chemical signatures and physical scales of primordial material residing beyond the orbit of Neptune. Research teams directed by doctoral candidates at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and the University of Victoria in Canada discovered [...]
In the icy and dark borders of our solar system, where the light from the Sun now reaches us in a weakened state, a secret has been hidden for billions of years that is about to overturn everything we knew about the creation of our cosmic neighborhood. Joining forces in a historic collaboration, humanity's two leading space telescopes, Hubble and […]
Beyond Neptune, there seem to be less tiny celestial bodies than some models of planet formation expect, while a particularly deep search with the James Webb Space Telescope shows surprisingly similar size distributions in two dynamically different populations. This provides new clues as to how the first fixed building blocks of the planets emerged in the young solar system. Greenbelt (U.S.A.). Beyond the Neptune orbit circle [...] The post Webb…
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