E-Mail IMAGE: This illustration imagines what the distant object nicknamed "Farfarout " might look like in the outer reaches of our Solar System. The most distant object yet discovered in our Solar System,... view more Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva With the help of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, and other ground-based telescopes, astronomers have confirmed that a faint object discovered in 2018 and nicknamed "Farfarout" is indeed the most distant object yet found in our Solar System. The object has just received its designation from the International Astronomical Union. Farfarout was first spotted in January 2018 by the Subaru Telescope, located on Maunakea in Hawai'i. Its discoverers could tell it was very far away, but they weren't sure exactly how far. They needed more observations.