Friday, September 16, 2016
X-Rays Detected From Pluto
The dwarf planet Pluto, recently visited by the New Horizons spacecraft, has given us another surprise. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected x-rays from Pluto, thought to be the result of solar wind hitting its thin cold atmosphere. Normally, gases have to be very hot to emit x-rays.
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