This is an artistic view in the foreground Quaoar, Neptune, and our sun ..What is Quaoar?
Michael Brown and Chadwick Trujillo of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena discovered this object in 2002. It is extremely faint as seen from Earth, but they used the large Palomar 48-inch telescope to notice it creeping in front of the star background. Its motion in front of the stars showed that it is closer to us than the stars, a member of our own solar system. From the first, Quaoar appeared relatively bright for such a distant object, but it was too small for even large telescopes to see in any detail.