14 February 2020
Arrokoth helps resolve longstanding controversy on Solar System evolution
... flyby’s of Arrokoth, the bi-lobed, red, peanut-like object located one billion miles beyond Pluto in the Kuiper belt, is helping scientists to make significant advances in understanding how planets and planetesimals – the building blocks of the...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... originated in a very cold region probably beyond the CO ice-line in a region analogous to our Solar System’s own Kuiper belt, where CO could be frozen onto the comet’s nucleus, suggest both authors in their respective papers. After the...
26 February 2018
A Sky Wonderful with Stars – 50 years of modern astronomy on Maunakea
...of additional effort”. Among its contributions to astronomy was the discovery of the first object (designated QB1) in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of the Solar System in 1992. Today, there are 13 facilities, including nine visible/IR telescopes, three...
17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... comets have come either from a ring of icy debris at the periphery of our Solar System, called the Kuiper belt, or from the Oort cloud, a shell of icy objects which is thought to be in the outermost regions of our Solar System...
