Given the typical orbit of an observatory about L2, the observational baseline of ~1.5 × 10⁶ km between L2 and Earth results in an instantaneous parallax of ~10″–100″, even for the most distant of ...
Work from the DiSCo program (Discovering the Composition of Trans-Neptunian Objects) has uncovered the existence of three ...
It is even suspected that there are tens of thousands of objects with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers. "Surprisingly, many of these so-called trans-Neptunian objects move on eccentric ...
Astronomers have discovered more than 100 new trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located in the far reaches of the solar system. For the study, published in The Astrophysical Journal ...