Ten observatories in six European countries teamed up for recent observations of a stellar occultation by the dwarf planet Haumea, which surprisingly show a narrow and dense ring orbiting the dwarf ...
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Beyond Neptune: The frozen worlds, lost planets, and the search for a hidden ninth giant
Far beyond Neptune lies a vast and unsettling frontier filled with dwarf planets, ancient ice worlds, collapsing atmospheres, ...
Astronomers spotted this object in 2004, and it helped usher in the formal definition a "dwarf planet," resulting in the demotion of Pluto. The longer astronomers observe Haumea, the more interesting ...
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This dwarf planet spins so fast it turned into an egg with a ring
First detected in 2004, the dwarf planetHaumeaquickly stood out due to its rapid rotation and elongated form. But the 2017 discovery of a ring system around it added a new level of complexity to an ...
Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is only about 4 Earth hours long. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...
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