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A team of scientists from the USA and Hungary reported that the TESS telescope, whose main goal is the search for distant exoplanets, in a certain a moment could fix the mysterious planet of the solar system, also called Planet X. Reports an information publication Science Alert.
According to experts, TESS can be configured to track movements of trans-Neptune objects (located outside the orbit Neptune). Researchers, by modeling, calculated approximate the dimensions of Planet X, if the telescope could to fix. The size of this object would be 19-24 star quantities, which suggests a hypothetical opportunity to make out this mysterious celestial object.
According to scientists, the TESS telescope, most likely, could fix this planet, but in order to finally figure it out, it’s necessary process a large amount of data.
TESS is tuned to detect exoplanets, passing on the background of the stars of their system. At this moment shine luminaries are becoming dimmer.
Due to the fact that the ninth planet of our system does not pass between the Sun and TESS, it is simply possible to detect it. However in a certain time the telescope is observing some parts of the sky, producing many pictures, and if these frames sum up, then the brightness of fixed distant objects can be strengthen.
In January 2016, scientists reported a possible observation of outside the orbit of Pluto of a large cosmic body. They put forward the hypothesis that this mysterious object similar to Neptune rotates around our star in an elongated orbit with a time period of 15 thousand years.
Previously, NASA scientists discovered that our sun continues to give birth the planet.
Andrey Vetrov
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