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What Exactly Are Dwarf Planets And How Many Of Them Are There?
Nobody was using the term Dwarf Planet until 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) had a vote to redefine what ...
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White dwarfs pause their cooling, giving planets a second chance for habitability
When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...
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On This Day: Scientists discover dwarf planet Eris
5 (UPI) --On this date in history ... It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal ...
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Dwarf planet Ceres: Building blocks of life delivered from space
Dwarf planet Ceres: Building blocks of life delivered from space Date: January 27, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research Summary: The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic ...