When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, it surprised a lot of people, including some scientists. Even many years later, some ...
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 ...
Named for the maiden-snatching, shadow-dwelling god of the underworld, the small but mighty planet Pluto is associated with destruction, subversion, depth, intensity, primal urges, the taboo ...
The dwarf planet ... than Pluto, and is encased in methane ice. Some researchers think that the hydrogen in Makemake’s methane could have come from water deep inside the planet’s interior.