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Astronomers Confirm Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfarout – Newswise
With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, and other ground-based telescopes, astronomers have confirmed that a faint
Newswise — Farfarout was first spotted in January 2018 by the Subaru Telescope, located on Maunakea in Hawai‘i. Its discoverers could tell it was very far away, but they weren’t sure exactly how far. They needed more observations.
“At that time we did not know the object’s orbit as we only had the Subaru discovery observations over 24 hours, but it takes years of observations to get an object’s orbit around the Sun,” explained co-discoverer Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science. “All…
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