Surprising Signs of an Atmosphere Around a Tiny World, Billions of Miles Away

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Surprising Signs Of An Atmosphere Around A Tiny World, Billions Of Miles Away

By The New York Times

A small world about 300 miles wide and 3.5 billion miles from the sun — nearly as far away as Pluto — appears to be swaddled in a layer of air, astronomers reported on Monday. “I was genuinely surprised,” Ko Arimatsu of the National Astronomical Obse ...Read more