Kuiper Belt
Its orbit is so large it would take nearly 20,000 years to go around the sun once.
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Pluto Has Volcanoes But They Don’t Spew Lava
byGillian Burrell
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NASA's new full-color images reveal that Pluto's hazy atmosphere shines a brilliant blue, and beneath that sapphire haze lies several expanses of water ice.
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How Pluto Lost it All
bySarah Tse
Many of us still feel bitter about Pluto’s demotion to dwarf planet status in 2006. If you want a more specific target at which to direct your spite, read on to find out it all went down.
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Massive Shadowy Planet May Lurk Beyond Pluto
bySarah Tse
A curious orbital pattern among objects in the Kuiper Belt points to the presence of a hidden planet at the very edge of the solar system, too far for us to detect but large enough to exert strong gravitational effects on surrounding celestial bodies.
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