Summary

Space is vast, with trillions of objects in it, so it’s not necessarily a surprise when scientists find new objects there, even if it’s sometimes entirely by accident . Some objects are scarcer than others, and dwarf planets in our solar system are among the rarest, with only five recognized examples. A group of researchers from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory may have just found a sixth.

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