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Posted on September 26, 2019September 26, 2019

The Planets Too Big for Their Star

Artist rendering of a red dwarf , with three exoplanets orbiting. About 75% of all stars in the sky are the cooler, smaller red dwarfs. (NASA) Two giant planets have been found orbiting a tiny star, defying our theories for how planets are formed. To be entirely truthful, there is nothing new in an exoplanet …

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Posted on July 7, 2016

Three Star Ballet, With Exoplanet

It hardly seems possible, but researchers have detected a planet in apparently stable orbit within a three star system -- a configuration now known as a trinary. The ubiquity of binary stars has been understood for some time, and the presence of exoplanets orbiting around and within them is no longer a surprise.  But this …

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