Scientists Potentially Found a Three-Body Problem in Space—but the Mystery Is Just Beginning
The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...
3.7 Billion Miles Away: Hubble Uncovers a Hidden Trio That Could Rewrite Kuiper Belt History
A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...
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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)
It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...
NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...
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BYU study analyzes distant Kuiper Belt object with NASA's Hubble data
Over the last 10 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures of Altjira and a 2011 study found that it appears as ...
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Hubble Reveals New Insights into Kuiper Belt's Triple Systems
Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a ...
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NASA’s Hubble finds Kuiper Belt duo may be trio
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, ...
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'This doesn't appear in computer simulations': Hubble maps chaotic history of Andromeda galaxy, and it's nothing like scientists expected
Hubble's survey of Andromeda focused on 36 dwarf ... The survey also revealed that half of Andromeda's dwarf galaxies orbit in a unique, flat plane, all moving in the same direction — a ...
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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that ... the doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies that lurks out beyond the orbit of Neptune. The discovery could also challenge our understanding ...