Sentences with phrase «icy dwarf»

Artwork of two icy dwarf planets orbiting within the Kuiper Belt of the outer solar system.

Finding out about Makemake's properties for the first time is a big step forward in our study of the select club of icy dwarf planets.»

The early and mid 2000s were really the gold rush for distant icy dwarf planet discovery.

Not exact matches

A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock — called cryovolcanoes — might disappear over millions of years.

These icy bodies apparently survived the star's evolution as it became a bloated red giant and then collapsed to a small, dense white dwarf.

Such worlds may include Mars, the asteroid Vesta, the dwarf planet Ceres or the icy moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

Pluto, demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006, likely has a hard, icy surface — not great for powder skiing like this poster shows.

The results also suggest the presence of unseen, surviving planets which may have perturbed the belt and worked as a «bucket brigade» to draw the icy objects into the white dwarf.

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia has discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

Images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show that a mysterious bright spot on dwarf planet Ceres could be a plume of water spurting from a deep, icy crater

Ever since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, evidence has been mounting that the dwarf planet may have a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell.

Dwarf planets like Pluto and smaller icy bodies populate the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune.

One of our solar system's five dwarf planets, Makemake — an icy, 1400 - kilometer - wide orb that circles the sun far beyond Pluto — was discovered in 2005.

Data gathered when the dwarf planet Makemake passed in front of a distant star last year are shedding new light on the icy orb's size, shape, and atmosphere — or, more precisely, its lack of one.

«Pluto as a cosmic lava lamp: Giant convective cells continually refresh dwarf planet's icy heart.»

New Horizons» flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up - close introduction to the solar system's Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets.

If the early results hold up, this time it's the dwarf planet Eris's turn to be demoted, and Pluto might have just regained its status as the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

The mysterious bright spot on the dwarf planet Ceres has been revealed in its highest resolution yet, and the bright materials in it appear to be coming from a fractured dome — a possible portal to icy materials in the subsurface.

Some scientists believe the dwarf planet harbored a subsurface ocean in the past and liquid water may still be lurking under its icy mantle.

The pictures, taken when New Horizons was about 13 million kilometers from the dwarf planet, show three different swaths of the icy surface as Pluto slowly rotated on its axis.

From the discovery of moons around these icy bodies, the internal composition, mass, density, and internal structure of these dwarf planets has been revealed.

This large debris disk is similar to the Kuiper Belt, which encircles the solar system and contains a range of icy bodies from dust grains to objects the size of dwarf planets, such as Pluto.

The discovery team presumes that VP113 has an icy reflective surface like other relatively small, outer Solar System objects, as the dwarf planet is observed to have a pink tinge, which is hypothesized to result from chemical changes produced by the effect of radiation on frozen water, methane, and carbon dioxide.

Including Eris, Pluto, and now Make - make (2005 FY9), the largest dwarf planets include many recently discovered icy objects that orbit the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune (more).

The outcomes also suggest the existence of hidden planets which may have affected the belt and acted as a «bucket brigade» to attract the icy bodies into the white dwarf.