Discovered New Planet Tyche?

There has been mounting speculation that a massive object in our solar system has been lurking in the shadows - but what is Tyche?

Unfortunately this is not a story about Aliens wandering around in massive UFO's but very valid reports regard a massive celestial body known as a Brown Dwarf.

The object is currently one of NASA's top priorities in its search of our own solar system, with the space telescope WISE being one bit of tech that is at the forefront.

This particular search for a brown dwarf - a failed star, is being conducted looking out into the asteroid cloud named Oort that is millions of miles beyond the former planet Pluto. There is also a lot of chatter among scientists that the brown Dwarf could indeed be an extremely large Gas Planet that could in fact make Jupiter look small.

There is a lot of evidence stacking in favor of the Brown Dwarf or gas giant that has been given the name Tyche, that could in fact be more than four times the size of Jupiter. Data from NASA's infrared space telescope WISE will confirm Tyche's location not only its existence within two years, stated Astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, whom conduct research out of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

Tyche is a spin off theory of Nemesis, a planet that was theorized about in 1984. And is so named Tyche after the good sister of the goddess Nemesis in Greek mythology.

There have been a number of comets coming from unusual locations in our solar system, and a massive planet or Brown Dwarf could explain why the comets have been heading through our part of space. Which according to scientists could explain extinctions of the past on our planet.

Tyche apparently has a massive orbit that could take up to 27-million years to complete a cycle, which also explains a little why it has been lurking in the shadows.

Tyche would only be seen in the infrared spectrum of light through technology currently available to telescopes if indeed it is a Brown Dwarf. Which is why the infrared space telescope WISE is being used in the search for Tyche.

If there is a new discovery of a gas giant planet then no doubt it would consist of colorful stripes and spots like those of Jupiter. There would be storms that could eclipse that of the massive swirling red spot on Jupiter.

"You'd also expect it to have moons," he said. "All the outer planets have them." Said Whitmire to reporters at the Independent.