ALMA Image of DeeDee (IMAGE)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

ALMA Image of DeeDee

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ALMA image of the faint millimeter-wavelength "glow" from the planetary body 2014 UZ224, more informally known as DeeDee. At three times the distance of Pluto from the sun, DeeDee is the second most distant known TNO with a confirmed orbit in our solar system.

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ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)

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