The James Webb Telescope Has Finally Found What NASA Has Been Searching for in the Kuiper Belt!
Kuiper Belt is a region in outer space or rather in solar system that is beyond the orbit of Neptune consisting of ice and rocky bodies and debris.
This flattened disk is populated by a plethora of little, rocky and icy bodies like Pluto and Eris, the dwarf planets. It is semi-circular but much bigger than the asteroid belt and its members are made up mainly of frozen gases, water, ammonia as well as methane.
This area is very important for astronomers, because the study of such area improves understanding of early Solar System and processes, which formed it. The Kuiper Belt also defines the end of classical system of planets and opens the door to even more distant and still mysterious region of space known as the Oort Cloud.
To get to the bottom of the Kuiper Belt, the James Webb telescope recently turned its attention to the remote extreme zone – and discovered something sensational: some of the celestial bodies there could actually radiate heat – and thus even harbor life!
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