Planet Nine

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In 2016, Mike and Constantine published a paper. They announced that there's nothing else we can possibly think of that aligns with the gravity and the math that we have. We think this is a giant planet in the outer solar system that we've not discovered yet. Not a borderline planet, a huge one. A large planet, as big as Neptune. But it's not enough to say that planet nine should exist. Mike and Constantine still have to find it,. which is hard because planet nine is really far away. It's pretty much for our brains unfathomably far.

Something strange is going on at the outer reaches of the solar system. One astronomer thinks it might be a Neptune-sized ninth planet, and he’s on a quest to find it.

That search is happening at an enormous telescope on the summit of Maunakea, a dormant Hawaiian volcano with a long astronomical and cultural history. But many Native Hawaiian scientists are asking: What’s lost in the pursuit of larger and larger telescopes?

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