The Backyard Worlds Planet 9 project is responsible for the discovery. From 2009 to 2011, scientists assigned to this endeavor used images from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) mission to study remote regions of the Milky Way. When NASA scientists joined the research, the mystery object that was captured over a decade ago has since been given a little bit of background information that may lead to similar discoveries in the future.
The mystery object, which NASA has officially named CWISE J124909.08+362116.0, is believed to have once traveled alongside another object. These binary pairs are quite common in the Milky Way, but the division of them is a little more uncommon. NASA postulates that the fast-moving body is most likely one of smaller density and mass, making it fit the description of a brown dwarf.
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