Finding Pluto’s Potential Replacement with a Giant New Telescope

Pluto was unseated as our solar system’s ninth planet in 2006.
Since then astronomers have found signs that a real ninth planet
could be hiding at the edges of our solar system. Clara Moskowitz,
senior editor for space and physics, explains how the forthcoming
Vera Rubin Observatory could give researchers a way to find the
real Planet Nine—if it’s out there. Recommended reading: – We May
Be on the Brink of Finding the Real Planet Nine – How to Move the
World’s Largest Camera from a California Lab to an Andes
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