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"Big surprise": astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars (www.eso.org)

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[–] NaibofTabr 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The planet could be a capture.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

Possibly. I didn't dive in deeper to see if they even know the shape of the orbit. From my understanding a capture is very unlikely to have a near circular orbit. But planetary discs definitely aren't captures, so something changed the stars in those.

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