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There's more to the dwarf planet Ceres than meets the eye. It contains a layer of salty water deep underground that can occasionally reach the surface.
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U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.
According to Live Scence, the planet’s shadow was first spotted in 2021 in data taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...
Two previous missions—the Dawn spacecraft now orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres, and Europe’s Rosetta comet mission—“were the pioneers in using large, efficient solar arrays in space ...
Named for the Roman goddess of the maternal, fertile and agricultural, Ceres is technically a dwarf planet but is regarded by astrologers as an asteroid.
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New research from NASA and Purdue University suggest that dwarf planet Ceres is chock full of water ice that once flowed as a muddy ocean on its surface.
Asteroid Juno seen traveling through space Date: April 7, 2015 Source: National Radio Astronomy Observatory Summary: A series of images made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
The largest is 596-mile-wide (959 kilometers) Ceres, which has recently been reclassified as a dwarf planet and is the only denizen of the asteroid belt known to be spherical in shape.