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DEAR NEIL: I have had this same problem with my dwarf Burford hollies for years. The center and low-area leaves and branches thin out and die. The top and end parts remain green. I have these ...
Earth has a newly-discovered neighbor in the solar system.. But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit ...
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But Pluto turned out to be too tiny — it is smaller than the moon — and was demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006. There are now four other officially recognized dwarf planets, and Cheng ...
The Sculptor Dwarf is a lightweight, coming in at only 30 million solar masses. M32, a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy, is much a heftier dwarf elliptical galaxy with 3 billion solar masses.
Scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, discover a new trans-Neptune Object, 2017OF201, potentially discrediting 2016 theory of Planet Nine.
Astronomers have discovered a freezing-cold world orbiting within the so-called "forbidden zone" around a dying star in which planets are normally destroyed.. The 5.8-billion-year-old white dwarf ...
A dwarf planet called 50000 Quaoar that orbits beyond Neptune appears to have a ring that shouldn't be there, at 7.4 times more distant than the planet's radius.
A sizable world has been found in a part of the solar system that astronomers once thought to be empty. It probably qualifies as a dwarf planet, the same classification as Pluto.. Temporarily ...
Diffuse dwarf galaxies exhibit unexpectedly strong large-scale clustering, aligning with old dark matter halos, while compact dwarfs trace young halos. This pattern, ...