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Smithsonian Magazine reports that astronomers have identified a distant object called 2026 ED138, about 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth, that takes roughly 281 years to complete an orbit. The object appeared in telescope images, and researchers still need to determine its size before they can say whether it qualifies as a new dwarf planet. Its orbit is tilted nearly 25 degrees compared with the Solar System's main planets, which may point to past gravitational interactions with Neptune.