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For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...
The Subaru telescope located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawai'i has found a new world within our Solar System, dubbed ...
Astronomers used a telescope in Hawaii to find a new object on the outer edges of our solar system, helping to fuel evidence of a long-standing theory about Planet Nine, or Planet X.
"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...
The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.
Japanese astronomers have discovered a potential dwarf planet, nicknamed Ammonite, orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, challenging the existence of the theorized Planet Nine.
Researchers just got a step closer to understanding the origins of our solar system, with the discovery of an object orbiting the sun—dubbed "Ammonite." The findings were recently published in the ...
The object, officially designated 2023 KQ14 and nicknamed “Ammonite,” was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. It belongs to a rare class of bodies known as Sedna-like objects, which orbit ...
The Subaru Telescope on Maunakea will be able to observe more than 2,000 celestial objects at once with a new instrument that will go online in February. The instrument contains about 2,400 ...
The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...
The orbit of 2023 KQ14 (in red) compared to the orbits of the other three sednoids (in white). 2023 KQ14was discovered near its perihelion at a ...