Hubble sees icy world far beyond Pluto
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered an icy world half the size of Pluto, according to the aerospace agency. The icy object 2002 LM60, tentatively dubbed "Quaoar" (pronounced "kwa-har") is about four billion miles away from Earth, more than a billion miles further away than Pluto. It is he...
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