Recent observations from the Subaru Telescope, combined with the New Horizons spacecraft, have suggested the…
Browsing: Arrokoth
Arrokoth, formerly known as Ultima Thule and initially designated as 2014 MU69, is a distant Kuiper Belt object that lies about 6.6 billion kilometers (4.1 billion miles) from Earth. It gained prominence when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft conducted a flyby of the object on January 1, 2019, marking the farthest exploration of any object in the solar system. Arrokoth is composed of two lobes, giving it a snowman-like shape, and is thought to be a primordial body left over from the early solar system, offering scientists valuable insights into planetesimal formation and the processes that shaped the outer solar system. Its reddish color and relatively smooth surface suggest it has remained largely unchanged since its formation.
Deep space probe measures all the background light in the universe. How dark is dark?…
A recent study exploring the development of comets suggests that objects in deep space, such…
A study challenges established views on Kuiper Belt Objects, revealing their ability to retain volatile…
These “Building blocks” of this Kuiper belt object may point to key details of streaming…
The small Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, encountered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on January…
A model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German…
In a fitting tribute to the farthest flyby ever conducted by spacecraft, the Kuiper Belt…
Astronomers were already excited to learn this summer that New Horizons’ next flyby target –…