SPACE
Astronomers find a new way to hunt for the elusive Planet Nine
Words by Mike Wall
Planet Nine is a world about ten-times more massive than Earth that may lie in the outer Solar System
@Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
FindingPlanet Nine may require looking at telescope images in a different light. Astronomers are vetting a ‘shifting and stacking’ technique that could aid the hunt for the putative world, which some researchers think lurks undiscovered in the far outer Solar System, way beyond Pluto’s orbit.