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Candidate Kuiper Belt Object


Depicts: Kuiper Belt
Copyright: A. Cochran (University of Texas) and NASA

This is sample data from the Hubble Space Telescope that illustrates the detection of comets in the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
7-Mar-2026 06:03 UT

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