This is the new ninth planet of our solar system!

There may be a ninth planet somewhere in our solar system waiting to be discovered, and it’s not Pluto.

Our solar system has eight planets, yet astronomers have developed a theory that there is a ninth planet hiding somewhere that we have not been able to see yet.

The reason is simple, the fact that it is so far from the Sun means that it is not very bright and therefore our current telescopes will not be able to detect it.

However, a new telescope set to begin peering into space in 2025 could finally solve the problem. Experts tell Live Science that the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory telescope in Chile will find Planet Nine.

Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, specifically noted that it is difficult to explain the solar system without Planet 9, although we cannot be 100 percent sure that it exists.

Aside from Pluto, which was downgraded from planet to dwarf planet in 2006, no other planets have been found beyond Neptune or the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of asteroids, comets and dwarf planets orbiting the Sun.

In 2004, scientists discovered that Sedna, a possible dwarf planet beyond the belt, had an odd orbit around the sun that suggested that another large mass was pulling on it with gravity. A 2014 study found that a similar object in the Kuiper Belt had an orbit similar to Sedna’s, and many other similar objects have been found since then.

The researchers say they have run several simulations to explain the orbits, but nothing has worked beyond the Planet 9 theory.

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