Comment by Qem

3 days ago

Hope they have captured an image of Planet Nine somewhere there, and eventually are able to pinpoint it.

I'm really curious whether it exists and / or if they will ever be able to find it, it's wild to consider they can map the galaxy but can't spot something that's relatively close to us. But, detection relies on reflected sunlight or blotting out stars etc behind it, and given the supposed distance that would be minimal.

That said, if it does exist I'm sure they'll find it eventually.

I don't think it would have a detection.

Gaia is a a satellite for mapping star positions and any possible planets past Neptune would be very faint.

It's also not a telescope in the traditional sense, it's more like a bar scanner in a supermarket but it's spinning around.