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thanks for the correction. The corrected translation would be: SwRI scientists used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to model the geothermal processes in the subsurface that may explain how methane reached the surface of Eris and Maki Maki, two dwarf planets in the distant Kuiper Belt. The figure suggests three possibilities, including the likelihood that liquid water exists within these icy bodies at the edge of the solar system, far from the sun's heat. Credit: Southwest Research Institute.

Astronomers reveal surprising activity on the dwarf planets Eris and Maki Maki

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The Webb telescope has observed what appear to be young methane deposits on the surface of Eris and Maki Maki
Dwarf Planet Candidate 2015 RR245 is in a fairly distant orbit, but is one of the few dwarf planets that can be visited by the New Horizons spacecraft. . Alex Parker/OSSOS, CC BY-SA

840 dwarf planets discovered beyond Neptune-Rahab - and what they can tell us

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hook. Photo NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

 Keres - additional findings

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The dwarf planet's surface has collapsed as photographed by the orbiting DAWN spacecraft. The white substance inside the crater is a type of salt. Photo: NASA

The collapsed dwarf planet is still growing

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Visualization of the planetary ring surrounding the football-shaped dwarf planet, the Omiya. Source: IAA-CSIC/UHU.

A planetary ring has been discovered around the Umi dwarf planet

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Left: An image of Saturn's rings as photographed by the Cassini spacecraft. Right: Image of the rings of Uranus as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo: NASA / JPL / STScI

Has the mystery of the formation of Saturn's rings been solved?

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Artist's illustration of the landscape on the dwarf planet Sedna. David Gerdes of the University of Michigan says the surface of 2014 UZ224 will look similar.

A new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of the solar system

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Interesting hints of Pluto's geology are revealed in this image taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on July 9, 2015 from a distance of 5.4 million kilometers from here. This annotated version of the image shows a large dark formation known as "The Whale" located on Pluto's equator, with a narrow band and elaborate polygons. In the lower part of the image is a photograph of Pluto, in which the area covered by the camera is highlighted, with the equator and the main longitude marked in bold. Photo: NASA-JHUAPL-SWRI

A whale on Pluto

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Artist's illustration of the dwarf planet Ceres. From the NASA website

Nancy, but fascinating

Group member Or Tamir with a model of "spaghetti" against the background of an illustration of a hook. Photographs: Jonathan Ashur, NASA

Students from Jerusalem won the Space Olympics for Ilan and Assaf Ramon

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Artist rendering of a trans-Neptunian object. The distant sun was reduced to a bright star 5 billion kilometers away. The Dark Energy Survey (DES) has now announced the discovery of several such objects, most likely dwarf planets like Pluto. Image: NASA

Look for dark energy and find more dwarf planets beyond Neptune-Rahab

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2012 VP113, the most distant object in the Solar System, as of March 2014, as seen in successive observations two hours apart on November 5, 2012. The findings were published on March 27, 2014 in Nature

The most distant object in the solar system has been discovered (when it bypasses Sadna in part of its orbit) * Researchers: It is possible that there are objects at the edge of the solar system larger than the Earth

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A new body in the solar system has been named: the Umeya dwarf planet

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New Dwarf Planet (and Plutoid): Maki-Maki

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The World Astronomical Union throws Pluto a bone - it and the trans-Neptunian bodies will be called plutoids

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The number of planets in the solar system - does it really matter how much?

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Were the changes in the definitions of the planets essential and how much their contribution affects the space sciences

New solar system(?)

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Astronomers challenge the decision to downgrade Pluto and call it a hijacker

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"Many tearful eyes" at the IAU conference in Prague where it was decided to demote Pluto

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The strict ones won - Pluto loses its status as a planet and becomes a 'dwarf planet'

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Today the vote on the definition of the planets in the solar system * Proposal: adding the atmosphere as a criterion

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Eight stars?

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12 Kochbia: the sequence of decisions regarding the determination of the definition of the planets

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There is a compromise in which the number of planets will increase to 12 and a waiting list of additional bodies will be opened

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3,000 astronomers are currently meeting in Prague to discuss the fate of Pluto

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