Enlarge / Artist's conception of the potentially ringed dwarf planet Haumea. (credit: IAA-CSIC/UHU) Thanks largely to the improvements in our instrumentation, we've started to get a picture of what the far reaches of our Solar System look like. Beyond the orbit of the outermost planet, there is a large collection of icy dwarf planets called trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs.

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