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

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40892136

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.