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James Webb telescope spots potential conditions for life on 2 dwarf planets beyond Neptune (www.livescience.com)

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are five confirmed dwarf planets in the solar system: Ceres, Haumea, Eris, Makemake and the ex-planet Pluto. All of these planetary pretenders, apart from Ceres, are located in or around the Kuiper Belt, a disk of comets and other small objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Pluto is so far from the sun and still has never seen such shade.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, Sedna is also a dwarf planet, isn’t it? And Gonggong? And all those other dwarf planets?