Can a new revolutionary telescope solve the mystery of Planet Nine? – Podcast | Science

Since Pluto was demoted from the planet to the dwarf planet in 2006, astronomers wonder if Neptune is really the planet most distant from the sun. Now, a new telescope could find out what lies in the most distant litters from the solar system. The Vera C Rubin observatory published its first images this week, and soon the most powerful digital camera in the world will point throughout the night sky. Scientists hope that if Planet nine exists, the telescope will find it during its first year of operation. The Ian sample is joined by Dr. Scott Sheppard, astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, to discover how Pluto lost his planetary status, why scientists think that there could be another super-terre and why Planet Nine was so difficult to find