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 ...
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'Streaming instability' hypothesis: What is it and how is Hubble involved?
Scientists have discovered a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, the Altjira system, challenging planet-formation theories.
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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Astronomers identify a celestial '3-body problem' lurking in the outer solar system
New research suggests that a binary pair of Kuiper Belt objects, known as the Altjira system, is actually made up of three ...
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Unknown spiral structure discovered at the edge of our solar system
Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...
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Mysterious Kuiper Belt Object May Hold Key to Solving the ‘3-Body Problem’
Astronomers have discovered what they believed to be a rare stable trio of gravitationally bound Kuiper Belt objects, ...
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Astronomers discover cosmic water source 140 trillion times larger than Earth’s oceans combined
Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...
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Robert Lea
It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids in the Kuiper Belt could be triplets. An X-ray signal that has puzzled ...