Sentences with phrase «icy objects past»
Since 1992, telescope scans of the sky have detected nearly 1000 bodies in the Kuiper belt, a band of icy objects past the orbit of Neptune.
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Scientists have since turned up more than 1,000 objects in this region, now called the Kuiper Belt, a disk - shaped realm of icy objects out past Neptune.
New Horizons, NASA's mission to the outer solar system, has been given a large chunk of time on the Hubble Space Telescope to assist an increasingly desperate search for an icy object the spacecraft can study after it hurtles past Pluto in July 2015, NASA headquarters announced today.
But alas, future sightings of this object probably aren't in the cards: Less than a week after the comet swooped past the sun, its icy nucleus shattered and disappeared, likely due to its brief but close call with extreme heat.