The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

It’s amazing to me that we can still find new heavenly bodies within our own solar system in 2025. Not to mention the possibility that we have data that suggests there might be yet another beyond Pluto, but that’s still speculative.

Science: one of the only topics that doesn’t suck in 2025.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    I think it’s more amazing that we can find what we have given the size of space. And it would be both incredible, unbelievable, and a bit concerning if the farthest objects we’ve found are all there are. There’s no reason there wouldn’t be a lot more, they’re hard to find, and why would there be an empty spot between them and the Oort cloud (which is WAY out there, not something we’ve actually seen).