NASA’s Hubble, Webb Find Far-out Solar System Objects ‘Remember’ Past
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September 8, 2026

NASA’s Hubble, Webb Find Far-out Solar System Objects ‘Remember’ Past

By NASA

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For the first time, scientists used the joint power of NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of the most far-flung bodies in our solar system, Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs). Some of these are the smallest and faintest ever directly seen. The researchers unexpectedly found fewer small TNOs than they expected, and that […]

Related Launch: STS-31 (Hubble)

STS-31 was the thirty-fifth mission of the space shuttle program. Discovery's tenth mission deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.

Rocket
Space Shuttle
Pad
Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Status
Launch Successful
Date
April 24, 1990
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