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Astronomers confirm that “Farfarout” is the most distant celestial body in the Solar System – The Portugal News
A new astronomical study has confirmed that the Solar System’s most distant celestial body, dubbed “Farfarout”, is the most distant from the Sun, NOIRLab, a US…
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12-02-2021 15:00:00 · 0 CommentsThe object, whose orbit intersects that of Neptune, the eighth and last planet of the Solar System, was first observed in January 2018 with the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, United States, but at the time, astronomers did not know exactly how far it was from the Sun.
Now, as a result of new observations with other telescopes, namely the two from the Gemini Observatory, with which NOIRlab works, the astronomers have confirmed, after obtaining…
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