Planet 9: Exoplanet that behaves like mysterious world discovered in another solar system
Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a world that behaves like the long-sought and still mysterious and unproven "Planet Nine". Now the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a planet 336 light years away that could offer clues about Planet Nine. The planet, known as HD106906 b, may have experienced something of the same process that left our own hypothetical Planet Nine lingering at the reaches of our solar system. Recommended Astronomers might have found another planet in our solar system "This system draws a potentially unique comparison with our solar system," explained the paper's lead author, Meiji Nguyen of the University of California, Berkeley.
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