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Scientists have long been hunting for a hidden planet out in the furthest reaches of our Solar System — and new research suggests with even more credibility that it actually is out there.The crux of the theory, as Caltech planetary researchers and paper coauthors Caltech's Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown have long claimed, relies on what are known as "trans-Neptunian objects," or TNOs, that lie beyond the planet of Neptune in the outer edges of our solar system.
The next steps, as the researchers behind the papers urge, is to utilize the power of the next generations of space observatories to try to find it — though as they caution, it still may be a while before P9, or whatever is affecting the TNOs, is detected. In particular, Batygin, Brown, et al are excited about the upcoming Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile, which is slated to be turned on in 2025 and will "be sensitive to all but the faintest and most northern predicted positions," as they predict in the
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