The largest study yet of ‘twin stars’ shows planetary orbits may be less stable than we thought.
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The discovery provides a way to study the birth of an entirely new planet in real time.
The unusual planetary system has a host star orbited by two giants. One has an incredible odd route around its star. And the other (unlike our own gas giants) is hellishly hot.
There are many bodies in the solar system we can’t easily access. But observations of their winds and sediments reveal a surprising amount.
Publicly available data and collaborations between scientists have led to the discovery of a planet in a triple-star system.
When NASA first started planning the Kepler mission, no one knew if the universe held any planets outside our solar system. Thousands of exoplanets later, the search enters a new phase as Kepler retires.
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