Nov 24, 2012
It turns out there’s no air up there: the apart dwarf world Makemake is surprisingly not in in an atmosphere, according to commentary done by astronomers regulating telescopes during ESO’s La Silla as well as Paranal observatories.
An general group of astronomers used the mountaintop telescopes to comply Makemake as it upheld in front of the gloomy credentials star in Apr 2011, the short stellar occultation that lasted usually about the minute. By examination how the starlight was blotted out by Makemake, measurements could be done of the dwarf planet’s size, mass as well as ambience — or, in this case, the miss thereof… the anticipating that astounded a little scientists.
