Illustration of a planet at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system.

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This artist's concept shows the planet catalogued as 2003UB313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our Sun can be seen in the distance. The new planet, which is yet to be formally named, is at least as big as Pluto and about three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto. The planet was discovered by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, California, on January. 8, 2005.

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Size: 4731px × 3548px
Photo credit: © Stocktrek Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: astronomy, color, concept, discovery, horizontal, illuminating, illustration, image, outdoors, planet, solar, space, sun, system, universe