stackyFACTSIn 1846, astronomers didn't discover Neptune by gazing romantically into the night sky. They realized Uranus was wobbling weirdly in its orbit and essentially used aggressive algebra to calculate that a giant blue gas ball must be hiding nearby pulling on it. Math nerds literally predicted a planet into existence.
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