The clearest way to imagine the Solar System is as a flat plate with some thickness, where planets, moons, asteroids, and other minor bodies exist along with, of course, the Sun at the center of this planetary feast.
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However, it was recently discovered that the edges are not as flat as previously believed.
Traditionally, it was thought that all orbital paths followed the system’s so-called “invariable plane.” But new measurements suggest that something is pulling strongly on them in the Kuiper Belt, that vast region populated by icy objects beyond Neptune where an anomaly has been detected.
Scientists Amir Siraj, Christopher Chyba, and Scott Tremaine have presented a fascinating study in which they used an innovative method that helps reduce observational errors, allowing them to…
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