Kuiper belt
James Webb telescope to study cold mysterious belt of solar system
The telescope will study the Kuiper Belt’s icy bodies to gather information about the universe’s origin. The Kuiper Belt is a disc in the outer solar system that extends from the orbit of Neptune at 30 Astronomical Units and till 50 AU from the Sun
What NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals about most distant object ever it has visited
The distant object is known as Arrokoth, and is a peanut-shaped, ultra-red object. Arrokoth sits in the trans Pluto region, some 1 billion miles from the Pluto in the Kuiper belt
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