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    Astronomers may have just found the first real clue to Planet Nine | The research team leveraged a 23-year gap between the IRAS and AKARI infrared all-sky surveys. This large time separation allowed them to search for slow-moving objects. They found 13 objects and narrowed it to 1.
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    Astronomers may have just found the first real clue to Planet Nine | The research team leveraged a 23-year gap between the IRAS and AKARI infrared all-sky surveys. This large time separation allowed them to search for slow-moving objects. They found 13 objects and narrowed it to 1.

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    2. slothboy on

      Oh sure, it’ll be planet nine for a while until we all get used to it and love it and then they’ll say “nah, it’s a dwarf planet so we’re back to 8” lol

    3. megavikingman on

      >Planet Nine’s existence was first proposed in 2016 by astronomers ***Konstantin Batygin*** **and** ***Mike Brown*** after they noticed unusual orbital clustering among several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).

      People have been searching for an additional planet since the mid-nineteenth century. It was just called Planet X back then, because we had 9 at the time…

    4. GiraffeWithATophat on

      I’m still holding out for the unlikely scenario that it’s a planetary-mass black hole

    5. yollarbenibekler on

      Really hope that the Nibiru, Marduk or whatever advanced civilization comes with that planet and whoops our ass for being naughty.

    6. jareddeity on

      I hope its a primordial black hole, imagine having that in our cosmic backyard and the science we could gain from it.

    7. maksimkak on

      This is cool and exciting. I hope there are follow-up observations by infrared telescopes.