This artist’s concept depicts a Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO), a small, faint, icy body orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. Often more than 100 million times dimmer than objects visible to the unaided eye, TNOs are so small that even with NASA’s Hubble and Webb space telescopes, they appear only as tiny points of light.
Image Description: An illustration of a roughly spherical, rocky object against a black background speckled with distant, white stars. The object is the color of red clay and is pockmarked with craters and other geological scars. At the bottom left corner of the illustration in gray lettering is the label “Artist’s Concept.”
Image Description: An illustration of a roughly spherical, rocky object against a black background speckled with distant, white stars. The object is the color of red clay and is pockmarked with craters and other geological scars. At the bottom left corner of the illustration in gray lettering is the label “Artist’s Concept.”
| Release Date | September 8, 2026 |
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| Science Release | NASA’s Hubble, Webb Find Far-out Solar System Objects ‘Remember’ Past |
| Credit | Artwork: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) |
| Last UpdatedLocationContact | Sep 08, 2026NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterMediaClaire Andreoli NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland [email protected] |
| Last Updated | Sep 08, 2026 |
| Location | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Contact | MediaClaire Andreoli NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland [email protected] |
| Related Terms | Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Small Bodies of the Solar System, The Solar System |
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