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A new method for scanning telescope images for the faintest signs of rock far beyond Pluto has uncovered evidence that our Solar System's disc of material extends far further into interstellar space than we thought.into the shadows have left astronomers with the distinct impression that the diffuse field of icy boulders known as the Kuiper Beltaround comparable stars, making our Solar System rather petite by comparison. With this new discovery, we might not be so unusual after all.
Finding things for the plucky little probe to look at now that it's nearly 60 AU from the Sun is no simple task. To spot anything moving through the perpetual midnight, astronomers need to get clever.By taking pictures at different times and then stacking the images on top of one another, it's possible to combine all of that light from a dimly lit object into a point, increasing its visibility.
Even with a computer algorithm to assist, searching for hidden rocks in a shift-stacked pile of hundreds of images requires old-fashioned human power, and a lot of it. Kuiper Belt Objects detected from the Subaru 2021 and 2022 observations. New Horizons' position is black, in the center. Given similar surveys of other patches of sky have failed to detect such bounties of orbiting objects, it's worth questioning whether they were simply unlucky, if there's something special about the Solar System along New Horizons' path, or if the machine learning technique has a few flaws to iron out.
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