Is Planet Nine out there? This new telescope could finally settle the long-standing mystery0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2023
Its shiny new camera will capture the night sky like never before.
Its shiny new camera will capture the night sky like never before.
There might be a ninth planet lurking at the edges of our solar system.
A new model provides an explanation for the bizarre orbits of distant objects in the solar system that doesn’t require influences from a massive ninth planet.
The far reaches of the outer solar system may be home to an icy giant — a hypothetical planet scientists have dubbed “Planet Nine.”
We learned more about neutron stars, found more planets and said goodbye to Cassini in 2017. We end the year with a better picture of the Universe than we started it with.
Ever since enthusiasm started growing over the possibility that there could be a ninth major planet orbiting the sun beyond Neptune, astronomers have been busy hunting it.
Planet Nine’s days of lurking unseen in the dark depths of the outer solar system may be numbered.
It is entirely possible that Planet 9 could have come from our own solar system, instead of it being captured from another solar system.
Planet Nine’s current situation have scientists debating on how it has been caught in our solar system.
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