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Astronomers May Have Found the First Direct Hint of Planet Nine (www.zmescience.com)
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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Researchers searching decades-old infrared observations have identified a faint object that appears to have moved across the sky between two surveys taken 23 years apart. Its brightness and slow motion fit what the team expected from a large planet hundreds of times farther from the Sun than Earth.