Is There a New Planet Out There?

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Finding a new planet is kind of like the holy grail of astronomy. Urbain Leverier used those data to say, oh, there must be a planet out there. But more often than not, these predictions end up being wrong. Mike and Constantine tried to come up with any other solution to explain this weird gravitational clustering going on at the outer edge of the solar system.

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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