Herschel observatory's population of trans-Neptunian objects

Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 05:01 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) —ESA's Herschel space observatory has observed 132 of the known 1400 cold worlds that inhabit a region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune, some 4.5–7.5 billion km from the Sun.

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