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  2. CNN
    https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/04/science/planet-nine...

    Planet 9: Inside the search for a hidden planet in our solar system

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  4. Ars Technica
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/new-kuiper...

    New Kuiper Belt objects lurk farther away than we ever thought

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    Elizabeth Rayne
  5. NASA
    https://www.nasa.gov/missions/new-horizons/nasas...

    NASA’s New Horizons Detects Dusty Hints of Extended Kuiper Belt

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  6. ScienceAlert
    https://www.sciencealert.com/nasas-new-horizons...

    NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in The Kuiper Belt

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  7. Phys.org
    https://phys.org/news/2024-06-horizon-kuiper-belt...

    A new horizon for the Kuiper Belt: Subaru telescope's wide-field ...

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  8. Science Mission Directorate
    https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas...

    NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega

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    James E. Webb
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    Is the Kuiper belt a donut-shaped field?
    Data from the New Horizons probe as it sails serenely through the Kuiper Belt hints at unexpected levels of particles where dust ought to be thinning out, suggesting the donut-shaped field extends significantly farther from the Sun than previous estimates suggest.

    NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in The Kuiper Belt

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    Is the Kuiper belt bigger than expected?
    More recent telescope observations have started to suggest that the inner main region of the Kuiper Belt might extend as far as 80 astronomical units, meaning the discovery is consistent with hints that the Kuiper Belt just might be larger than expected. At time of writing, New Horizons is more than 58 astronomical units from the Sun.

    NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in The Kuiper Belt

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    What does the Kuiper belt look like?
    The Kuiper Belt is characterized by a high density of rocky, icy objects (icy because it's very far from the Sun, and very cold). It's filled with large rocks and dwarf planets, and a whole bunch of objects that we can't really see because they're relatively small, and it's very dark out there. But dust can tell us a fair bit about what's going on.

    NASA's New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in The Kuiper Belt

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    Why are Kuiper belt objects red?
    Many Kuiper Belt objects are a deep reddish color as a result of their organic chemicals being exposed to cosmic radiation. This breaks the hydrogen bonds in those chemicals, releasing much of the hydrogen into space and leaving behind an amorphous organic sludge that keeps getting redder the longer it is irradiated.

    New Kuiper Belt objects lurk farther away than we ever thought

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  10. Space.com
    https://www.space.com/solar-system-map-kuiper-belt...

    Our solar system map may need an update — the Kuiper belt …

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  11. Science Mission Directorate
    https://science.nasa.gov/missions/new …

    New Horizons Team Discusses Discoveries from the …

    Mar 15, 2023 · New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of thousands of icy, rocky planetary building blocks – might stretch …

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  12. NASA
    https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/new-horizons...

    New Horizons Team Adds AI Smarts to Its Kuiper Belt Object Search

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  13. HubbleSite.org
    https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/...

    New Horizons Measurements Shed New Light on the Darkness of …

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