💫👀 On Aug. 30, 1992, #astronomers spotted an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto for the very first time. Follow space history as it happens 👉 https://trib.al/yDYZFS3 Before then, Pluto was believed to be the most distant #planetary body of our solar system. No one had seen anything orbiting farther out because these so-called Trans-Neptunian objects were far too faint to detect with the #technology they had at the time. With new digital imaging techniques, astronomers were able to spot a ne