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James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble discover 27 puzzling new objects orbiting the sun far beyond Neptune

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James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble discover 27 puzzling new objects orbiting the sun far beyond Neptune
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The Hubble and James Webb space telescopes have teamed up to target some of the smallest, most distant objects in the solar system, discovering that the history of these tiny objects is more puzzling than we'd realized.The two orbiting observatories collectively discovered 27 new Trans-Neptunian Objects, or TNOs, all less than 25 miles (40 kilometers) across, with the smallest being only 6 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter. As their name suggests, TNOs orbit the sun from far beyond Neptune. Some

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