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Astronomers Uncover Distant Dwarf Planet 2017 OF201 That May Rewrite Planet‑Nine Theory
Researchers think they have found a new planet that might be a member of the solar system.
The James Webb Space Telescope and other cutting-edge technologies allow scientists to continuously learn more about the universe.
The Mars Rover is still returning intriguing evidence of life on Mars, and in the last few years alone, we have seen photographs from farther away than anyone could have guessed twenty years ago.
Our findings will only grow as billionaires eagerly enter the space sector, however I’m not sure if famous astronaut Katy Perry will have anything to do with them.
The most recent finding, which is roughly 46.5 billion to 65.1 billion miles away, was discovered directly on the edge of the solar system, much like the kid who was chosen last in physical education.
Whether this is true or not is still up for debate among scientists. Elon Musk will undoubtedly be pleased that NASA called the purported planet “Planet X.”
Luckily, the people who found it generally get the right to name it, and since Greek and Roman mythological gods are a recurring motif, it is unlikely to remain Planet X for very long.
Fans of the dwarf planet must be furious that this new kid on the block may replace Pluto, even though Pluto was notoriously reclassified back in 2006. This is because Planet X is actually about 20 times further from the sun than Pluto.
“It is pretty amazing to think that something as big as Neptune could be sitting out there and no one would have ever noticed it,” Gary Bernstein, an astronomer at the University of Pennsylvania told Science.
“But if you put it far enough away, it gets fainter and fainter very fast.”
The astral object, which a group of astronomers from Taiwan, Japan, and Australia believe may be an ice planet like Neptune or Uranus, was tracked using 40 years of data from two space probes.
Evidence of a strong gravitational pull well beyond Neptune was first observed in 2016.
In a breakdown of Planet Nine, NASA said: “It could also make our solar system seem a little more ‘normal.'”
“Surveys of planets around other stars in our galaxy have found the most common types to be ‘super Earths’ and their cousins — bigger than Earth, but smaller than Neptune.”
“Yet none of this kind exist in our solar system. Planet Nine would help fill that gap.”
But according to other scientists, the Planet X candidate discovered in this latest study would be a totally different planet because it is much farther away. It would also refute the original theory of Planet X because the orbits of the two planets would become unstable if they were both present.
Others believed that when the results are examined, the “faint dots” that were offered as proof of Planet X wouldn’t withstand much inspection.
I regretfully have some terrible news for those of you who were hoping to find out about any indications of life on Planet X. With only extremophiles—microbes that appear to be able to survive and flourish in extremely severe conditions—life there is probably not going to be easy.
Planet X may soon be formally designated as the ninth planet (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system, but you probably won’t hear about it much more than this.
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