At the edge of our solar system, Pluto drifts in shadow, a world once dismissed as small and unimportant. Yet when the James Webb Space Telescope turned its gaze toward it, astronomers were stunned. The icy dwarf was wrapped in a bluish, layered haze unlike anything seen before, a veil that cools the planet in defiance of all expectations. Scientists realized the rules of planetary atmospheres were not as they thought. The discovery unsettled them, raising questions that reached far beyond Pluto. What else have we overlooked in the darkness, and what secrets still hide in plain sight?
