Astronomers are confused by the recent discovery of a mystery object orbiting around the sun backwards. Located in the outer solar system past Neptune, the object was spotted by the Pan-STARRS telescope and has been moving in an opposite direction to the rest of the planets. So the fact the object is moving in the opposite direction to the rest of the planets has Ms Bannister puzzled. "It suggests that there's more going on in the outer solar system than we're fully aware of," he said. "Whenever you have some feature that you can't explain in the outer solar system, it's immensely exciting because it's in some sense foreshadowing a new development," he said.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 14, 2016 05:15 UTC