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In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...
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New Scientist on MSNExoplanet found in odd perpendicular orbit to brown dwarf star pairIt is rare to find brown dwarf stars orbiting in pairs, and this pair has an even more unusual exoplanet companion ...
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Space.com on MSNScientists discover bizarre double-star system with exoplanet on a sideways orbit (video)"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...
The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...
Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...
Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is ...
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Rare exoplanet orbits twin stars in 'Star Wars'-like twistAstronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...
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Star Wars-like planet with unusual orbit found outside solar system, scientists sayLocated about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an unusual path around two brown dwarfs, whipping around at ...
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ZME Science on MSNWeirdest Planetary System Ever? Meet the Planet That Spins Perpendicular to Its StarsAstronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...
Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...
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IFLScience on MSNNew Planet In Strange Perpendicular Orbit Around Binary Stars Is Straight Out Of Science Fiction"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...
Astronomers believe they’ve discovered a "Tatooine"-like planet orbiting two stars in a galaxy far, far away. The planet is ...
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