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A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

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The planet, informally dubbed 2M1510, traces out an orbit that carries it far over the poles of two brown dwarfs.

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stopped classifying Pluto as our solar system’s ninth planet and demoted its ...