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You've been had. Planet X, Nibiru, doesn't exist. All that is there (close nearby, actually) is an infrared source...IRAS 05509-612. It's a star.
People get so easily taken in by this sort of nonsense and then you get people wanting to make out like it's some big conspiracy of silence on the part of astronomers and such...like we're not telling the public the truth. It's easy to get caught up in these things when you don't know anything, or very little about astronomy. How many people these days even bother to look up at the sky at night?? Not many.
Take this sort of nonsense for what it is....garbage.
Just to concur with David, it's right next to M42.
If it's in or around the neb', it's most likely a young star shrouded in dust. If not, it maybe a carbon star (a cool red giant with a lot of carbon in its spectra).
Last edited by renormalised; 04-09-2010 at 07:17 PM.
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