Another world may lurk in the distant Oort cloud, the spherical region of icy chunks and rocks where comets reside.
. But what if another world lurked in the distant outer reaches of our solar system?MNRAS Letters
, a co-author on the new work and an astronomer at the Planetary Science Institute. These hidden strangers are “a class of planets that should definitely exist but have received relatively little attention” until now, he adds.
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