NASA Finds A Mysterious 3-Body System In Deep Space, And It's Not A 'Problem'
NASA Find: Scientists may have found a real example of three space rocks moving together in a faraway part of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt. "The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception," said Maia Nelsen, scientist and lead author of the study The Kuiper Belt is a cold, distant region beyond Neptune, filled with icy space rocks called Kuiper Belt Objects. All About The Altjira System According to an article on the NASA website, the new discovery helps support an idea about how these space rocks formed. Some scientists believe that instead of crashing into each other and sticking together, three objects could have formed naturally at the same time from leftover material around the young Sun, about 4.5 billion years ago.
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