Astronomers find the "space object" furthest from our solar system

A team of astronomers has discovered what's more distant in our solar system, called Farout, where the distant body is so far apart that experts estimate that it takes more than 1,000 years to cycle around the sun

According to the British metro site, this body distances us from about 120 astronomical units (AU) in terms of distance from the Earth, a unit measured by the distance between the planets and the sun, equal to the average distance of the Earth in relation to the sun, which corresponds to 149,597,870,691 km. This means that this body is about 18 billion kilometers from us, knowing that Pluto is only 34 astronomical units of the planet.

"It was found at a place similar to the one where the other extreme objects known in the solar system are, suggesting that they might have the same kind of orbits around the sun," Scott C. said. Sheppard of the Carnegie Endowment in Washington. .

The team, made up of experts from other American universities, was studying the universe for the mysterious planet X – the extracellular planet outside Neptune. Instead, they found Farout, they say, pink, said the Carnegie Institute in Washington in a statement. "Its luminosity indicates a diameter of about 500 km, which probably gives it the shape of a ball and a dwarf planet."