By the James Webb Space Telescope. About 1.6 million km from Earth. Humanity’s view of the universe now extends 13.5 billion years into the past. Scientists are eager to study the early days of everything. But there’s a lot we don’t know about our neighbors in the solar system.
In 1951, the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper hypothesized that a belt of objects (believed to be planetary debris or debris from the formation of the solar system) must be behind the outermost planet. away. This was proven true in 1992 when the Kuiper Belt was discovered. now. Evidence shows that there is another Kuiper Belt, possibly after the first belt.
said Wes Fraser. Lead author of the study: If this conclusion is confirmed. The Kuiper Belt is small and unusual compared to the belts around other stars.
These results come from a joint effort between the New Horizons probe – which flew by Pluto in 2015 – and the Subaru telescope located on Mauna Kea in Chile. And he was looking for
Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) for New Horizons to visit. The Subaru Telescope’s Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) has observed 239 Kuiper Belt objects in just four years. Among these things. Twelve interesting things.
Fumi Yoshida said. One of the authors of the study: The most interesting thing about the HSC is the discovery of 11 objects at distances far beyond the known Kuiper Belt. Even if this is confirmed. It will be a real find.
The special nature of these objects is related to their relative distances from the Sun and from the original Kuiper Belt. Which is located 35 to 55 astronomical units from the sun (the astronomical unit
The average distance between the Earth and the Sun). According to Space.com. The newly discovered objects are located between 70 and 90 astronomical units from the Sun.
