Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, yesterday announced that the trans-Neptunlan planet which was recently discovered by the Lowell Observatory, has been photographed by means of the Observatory's 16-inch Metcalf reflector.
Recent investigations have shown that the light from the new planet is 10,000 times fainter than that of the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye. The Harvard astronomers are now trying to obtain more information concerning the planet by examining photographic plates that have been exposed in past years.
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