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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