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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt, is helping scientists nail…

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These dwarf galaxies in the Hydra cluster are baffling scientists: ‘We found something we didn’t expect’

Astronomers have discovered something surprising about the universe’s smallest and faintest class of galaxies: Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs). A research team…

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Tiny dwarf galaxy might house a supermassive black hole

The Large Magellanic Cloud may have its own supermassive black hole Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A supermassive…

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‘Star Trek scion’ Adam Nimoy talks our favorite (dwarf) planet for ‘I Heart Pluto’ festival

The 95th anniversary of Pluto’s official discovery by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona is rapidly approaching…

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