Astronomers Expected More Tiny Worlds Beyond Neptune – Webb Found Something Else

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Trans Neptunian Object IllustrationTiny icy bodies beyond Neptune are scarcer than some models predicted, and their colors suggest they may preserve traces of their formation. Far beyond Neptune, astronomers expected to find more small, icy bodies than their deepest survey revealed. These trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs, are remnants of the material that built the planets. Studying the smallest [...]
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