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NAU Study Finds a Surprise at the Edge of the Solar System

NAU Study Finds a Surprise at the Edge of the Solar System11. Sept.5 Min.

Send us a text and chime in! What can distant, tiny objects in space tell us about how our solar system formed? As it turns out, quite a lot. A pair of new studies, one of which was led by NAU Ph.D. candidate Anastasia Morgan, examined Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs)—some of the most far-flung bodies in the solar system—in an effort to better understand how the system formed and how it has evolved. The studies were the first in history to harness the joint power of NASA's Hubble and Webb teles...