Are We Alone Skeptic Check: Tyche, or not Tyche?

Tune into the Are We Alone podcast's Skeptic Check segment for insights on a purported jovian planet and media coverage of planets.

Written byPhil Plait
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This month's "Are We Alone" podcast segment Skeptic Check is now online, where astronomer Seth Shostak and I talk about the purported jovian planet that might or might not exist in the cold depths of the solar system out past Neptune. We talk about the science of such a world, and how the media perhaps puffed this piece past a proportionate planetary propriety. Probably.

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