Free Astronomy Magazine May-June 2021

50 ASTRO PUBLISHING NOIRLab, and other ground-based telescopes, astronomers have con- firmed that a faint object discovered in 2018 and nicknamed “Farfarout” is indeed the most distant object yet found in our Solar System. Solar System’s most distant known object confirmed W ith the help of the inter- national Gemini Observa- tory, a Program of NSF’s by NOIRLab - Amanda Kocz