We keep hearing about Planet Nine - the proposed new planet in the Solar System that might be herding asteroids out past Pluto - but astronomers are having a hard time actually finding it. New planets and asteroids have only ever been found using reflected sunlight. Our Sun sends out light in all directions, and a tiny amount of it bounces off a planet or asteroid, then an even tinier amount bounces back towards Earth.
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