Volcanoes of Mud Erupt From Giant Asteroid Ceres

Nothing is normal on Ceres — least of all its mud volcanoes.
In new research published in Nature Astronomy, a large team of astronomers has laid out a new view of the weirdest world in our solar system. It seems that Ceres has had a busy last few billion years — including random smatterings of volcanism, but of a type seen nowhere else in the solar system.Ceres is the largest world in the asteroid belt, and is believed to be a remnant proto-planet, or the kind of small worlds that se