Scientists have detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, indicating that the distant body is a dynamic icy world. The discovery was made by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Makemake is one of the largest and brightest worlds beyond Neptune, and becomes only the second trans-Neptunian object, after …
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