At the beginning of time, there was The Earth and him companion planet circling the Sun on the same orbit. They revolved and revolved, until they hit each other with the fury of titans, and thus the Moon appeared in our skies. The years went by, by the millions, by the billions and mankind appeared. They found the Sun, they found the Moon, the planets one by one until there was nothing else to find, or so they thought. For countless years, we have all been lead to believe that Pluto was the last so called planet in our solar system but we could not be more wrong and right in the same time.
Some years ago, researchers, discovered a mass behind Pluto that obscured view of the space behind. Countless ideas emerged from the minds of scientist. It is a planet, it is a planetoid, it is an asteroid, no body knew and everybody tried to guess. It felt like the ancient man trying to see the “gods in the night sky”. From Planet-X to Nibiru, to the mayan prophecies of 2012, aliens coming to get us, countless ideas sprung from the darkness of our minds.
Nowadays, the mystery of the object behind our last planetoid has been resolved.
The story begun in the year 1984 when an astronomer by the name of Dave Green found this object just behind Pluto and classified it as “the remnant of a supernova” and because it was so small, it was thought to be very young – less than 1000 years old.
In 2007, X-ray observations made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed that the object was much larger than the last time it was observed. Immediately, the object was reanalyzed and was thought to be a very young supernova, merely 150 years old because only such kind of objects could expand at this rate – the object was found to be 16% larger than in 1984; the only problem that remained was that no supernova blast had been recorded during the American Civil War when the supernova was thought to have exploded.
The gravitational anomalies in the Oort Cloud suggesting that an object with huge mass was near attracted the attention of some Spanish astronomers. The fact that the object got bigger since its last measuring, was no surprise to them, as they already thought that the object was on an elliptical orbit around our Sun and it was getting closer to Earth.
We are entering a new age, an age of discovery, where the distant future converges with the troubled past. Where will we go from now? Where will everything around us lead to? These are questions for the future to come.
