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Astronomical objects discovered in 2015

  • S/2015 (136472) 1Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope toward the Kuiper belt in April 2015. They used a specific instrument called the Wide Field Camera 3 to scan…
  • 541132 LeleākūhonuaAstronomers David Tholen, Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard spotted a faint point of light on the 13th of October 2015. They were using the Subaru Telescope…