Farout!
That’s the nickname just given to a far-out world circling the Sun.
All astronomers can see is a pinkish dot of light in the night sky, but that is enough to infer that they are looking at a 300-mile ice ball orbiting more than 11 billion miles (17.7 billion kilometers) from the Sun — more than three times as far out as former-real-planet, now dwarf-planet, Pluto....and the farthest object ever observed within our solar system.
That is definitely far-out!
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>>CLICK the images above for a much better look....
>>Top image: an artist’s conception of what “Farout” -- technically named VG18 -- might look like. Bottom image: “Farout” relative to the Sun, the Earth and the rest of our solar system.
