About this episode

Astronomers have discovered that a small distant world in the outer Solar System appears to have an atmosphere, detected using the light of a background star.

The outer Solar System is home to some of the coldest, darkest, and most mysterious objects we know. 🪐❄️ Now, astronomers have discovered something remarkable: a small distant world appears to have an atmosphere, despite its tiny size and extreme location at the edge of our Solar System. 😲 But the discovery itself is even more incredible. Instead of taking a direct image, scientists detected this faint atmosphere using the light of a background star as the object passed in front of it. 🌟 T...

Topics covered

• atmosphere detection
• astronomy
• outer Solar System
• TNO objects
• space exploration

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