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James Webb telescope spies a 'farting' dwarf planet with fluorescent gas in the outer solar system
New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...
"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...
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Scientists Find That Dwarf Planet 'Makemake' Has an Atmosphere, Sort Of
More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...
The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...
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