In our secondary schools, we learnt that there are only 9 planets in the solar system but recently scientists have uncovered a new set of dwarf planets after the pluto.

A majority of this dwarf planets lie tucked away in the depths of our solar system.


A handful have been identified in the last decade thanks to new technology, but many remain a

mystery, undiscovered by astronomers.

However, scientists believe they have stumbled upon the largest unnamed world in our solar system after analyzing data from two space observatories, according to a new report by NASA.


The world, 2007 OR10, is much larger than astronomers previously thought, making it the third largest dwarf planet on a list of half a dozen worlds. Scientists believe there may be thousands of worlds like this in our solar system.


Many dwarf planets are hard to detect because they look like tiny points of light. It is hard to tell if that light is coming from a small world or a large world. That was one of the challenges of finding 2007 OR10. Although its elliptical orbit brings it as close to our sun as Neptune, the eighth planet in our solar system, 2007 OR10 is twice as far away as Pluto.


Using Kepler, NASA's planet-hunting space telescope, and archival data from European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory mission, astronomers were able to revise the size of 2007 OR10.


The world has a diameter of 955 miles, making it about one-third Pluto's size.


"Our revised larger size for 2007 OR10 makes it increasingly likely the planet is covered in volatile ices of methane, carbon monoxide and nitrogen, which would be easily lost to space by a smaller object," said András Pál at Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary, who led the research. "It's thrilling to tease out details like this about a distant, new world -- especially since it has such an exceptionally dark and reddish surface for its size."


One observation scientists have made is that 2007 OR10 is a very dark world, which could give us clues about the early history of our solar system


"We think this object is left over from when our sun and solar system first formed," NASA scientist Geert Barentsen said. "It's almost as

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Old news.

I guess it would come as a shock to you if I told you that Uranus has 63+ moons. In secondary school, we were told 12.

Our solar system has far more planets than you can imagine, not 9.

The sun moves.

Etc.

Our Education in this nation is a joke.