Through the use of a new camera affixed on the 4-meter telescope of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Chile, scientists have discovered a pink dwarf planet at the edge of the solar system, named the inner Oort cloud.

Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory have discovered the planet. The dwarf planet has been officially named as, 2012 VP-113, but scientists would like to call it, Biden, giving a tribute to Vice President Joe Biden.

Having a diameter of 280 miles and being 7.5 billion miles from the sun, the pink ice ball is expected to have temperature around minus 400 degrees Fahrenheit. At its farthest, the newly discovered planet can reach 42 billion miles from the sun. The planet appears to have less light than Sedna.

For a long time, it was considered by scientists that area beyond the Kuiper belt is deserted. But in 2003, another dwarf planet called Sedna was discovered and it was considered to be the most distant planet in our system. It would not be wrong to affirm that the latest discovery seems to have turned the table.

Scientists are now of the belief that there may be hundreds of other objects there. "It goes to show that there's something we don't know about our solar system, and it's something important", said Trujillo.

The latest discovery might give clues as how the solar system was formed. In fact, Biden's discovery has unveiled that there are possible 900 other celestial bodies in that area waiting to get discovered. The finding has been published in the Nature magazine.