Astronomers May Have Identified the First Compelling Evidence for Planet Nine. – TheWatchTowers.org

Astronomers may have identified the first compelling evidence for Planet Nine. – TheWatchTowers.org

Analysis of two decades-old infrared sky surveys (IRAS 1983 and AKARI 2006) has revealed a faint object whose movement suggests an orbit roughly 700 AU from the Sun – about 65 billion miles. Based on its infrared signature, this object could be larger than Neptune and take millennia to complete one orbit. The Planet Nine hypothesis emerged in 2016 to explain peculiar orbits of distant icy bodies beyond Neptune, hinting at a massive, undiscovered…