Saturday, 30 May 2020

If Planet 9 Really Exists, Here's the Wild Way We Could Hunt It - Popular Mechanics

While it's been four years since Brown and Batygin proposed a "Planet 9" to "replace" our beloved Pluto, they've come up empty handed. In their defense, that part of our solar neighborhood is vast with a capital huge. Which is where Edward Witten comes in with a crazy proposal to detect it, according to Caroline Delbert. In short, the more eyes the better. Another cosmic mystery appears to have been lain to rest with the headline Astronomers Find "Missing Matter," Solving Decades-Long Mystery Of Outer Space, and it has nothing to do with your couch cushions. How? With a little help from those mysterious fast radio bursts and careful timing appear to do the trick, write Michael Slezak and Penny Timms. Best of all, the method was so simple and one only needed to think outside of the box! (CS)

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