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There are a large number of balls of ice and rock of various sizes scattered around the solar system. Some are small enough that they are irregularly shaped. Some have highly elliptical orbits. Some are very, very small. So part of the difficulty is that there is not an agreed upon definition of what a 'planet' really is. By one definition, Pluto is not a planet, but rather is the first of a class of medium sized balls of ice and rock to be discovered at the edges of our system (the Kuiper belt objects). There are many others, some of which are comparable in size. Furthermore, these objects are far enough away from the sun that they don't reflect much light back to us, so they are very hard to locate.
On the other hand, we can estimate the distances to some fairly bright galaxies and determine that they are billions of light years away. That means that the light from these galaxies has taken a billion years to get to us. That, in turn, means that we are seeing now what happened there billions of years ago. This allows us to say what the universe was like at that time with some confidence.