A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witnessed the object occult a distant star. A very small body, far from the sun in an icy outer realm of the solar system, has mysteriously grown an atmosphere — and scientists are stumped as to how and why this happened. One possibility is that the atmosphere was produced through cryovolcanis... [5445 chars]
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