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Ken Croswell

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Dwarf planet Makemake sports the most remote gas in the solar system Original

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By Ken Croswell
| Science News Verified
More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found evidence of gas” on Makemake, even though it currently resides 53 times as far from the sun as Earth does, says Silvia Protopapa, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. She and her colleagues submitted the discovery September 8 to arXiv.org.
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A rogue black hole is on the loose in our galaxy

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By Ken Croswell
| Science News Explores Verified
astronomer: A scientist who works in the field of research that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe. black hole: A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation (including light) can escape. celestial: (in astronomy) Of or relating to the sky, or outer space. celestial object: Any naturally formed objects of substantial size in space. Examples include comets, asteroids, planets, moons, stars and galaxies.
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Mysterious ‘little red dot’ galaxies have a possible origin story

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By Ken Croswell
| Science News Verified
The early universe is speckled with little red dots, and now we may have an idea of how these peculiar galaxies originated: They were born with almost no spin. Little red dots were totally unknown until their discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope, which revealed a tiny galactic species that proliferated when the universe was only 640 million to 1.5 billion years old.
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