Astronomers have found a distant celestial body — potentially a dwarf planet — orbiting the sun from more than twice as far as Pluto. Found by astronomers at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, it’s one of the most distant solar system bodies observed with optical telescopes. It takes 25,000 years to orbit the sun — and it could be the first of many new objects to be found in the outer solar system.
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