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Hubble Space Telescope Discovers This Moon Orbiting the Second Brightest Dwarf Planet of the Kuiper Belt

The Kuiper belt is one of the most unique regions in the solar system housing hundreds of thousands of icy bodies larger than 100 km and trillions of comets. Astronomers estimate that over 200 dwarf planets exist in the Kuiper belt. One of these dwarf planets is the Makemake (pronounced as MAH-kay MAH-kay), which is […]

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