Hubble Space Telescope Presently Finding a Moon-Hiding In Our Own Cosmic-Backyard

Presently a few weeks ago, astronomers made a giant discover: a gigantic galaxy circling our own appeared seemingly away of nowhere. And now Hubble has discovered a latest moon roaming in plain sight at the borders of our incredibly own Solar System. Astronomers discovered this moon circling the next brightest icy dwarf planet, Makemake, way history Pluto in the Kuiper belt and it's about 161 km (100 miles) in diameter. So what took us so long to find out this significant object in our own cosmic backyard?

 The main cause is darkness. Yes, the newly spotted moon, which has been momentarily called 'S/2015 (136472) 1', was clever to stay hidden from us for so long because it's extremely dark. This particular moon income such a minute amount of light that astronomers have struggled to see it next to the brightness of Makemake. S/2015 (136472) 1 or 'MK 2' for short, is additional than 1,300 times dimmer than its host planet.

Astronomers determined to target the Hubble Space Telescope at Makemake for over 2 hours back in April, 2015 and following that the moon finally revealed itself

 Alex Parker, an astronomer from the Southwest study Institute in Texas, was reviewing the data obtained, he exposed a faint point of light moving about Makemake nealry 20,900 km (13,000 miles) away. You can view that tiny end of light in the Hubble images above.

Parker told National Geographic “I was sure a big shot had seen it already” He enquired his fellow astronomer Marc Buie about it, who reply with: "There's a moon in the Makemake data?" "It was at that point that everything got stirring and kicked into high gear” said Parker.

The astronomers now desire to utilize Hubble Space Telescope for additional study and to figure out the exact orbit of MK2 in the hopes of meaningful more about the structure and density of the icy dwarf planet.

The study has been put onward for peer review, and is issue on the pre-print site arXiv.org so others astronomers and expert can also add their thoughts.

It's quite thrilling to recognize that there's still much out there in space that we haven't exposed as yet. Who knows, this strength also be the year we finally spot the Planet-Nine.