Thursday, October 7, 2010

Retrograde world could mean there are tons of planets around binary stars [Mad Astronomy]

Astronomers believed that binary star systems were too volatile to support many planets, because the overlapping gravitational forces of the two stars would pull most planets apart. But one exoplanet 69 light-years away survives just fine...by orbiting the wrong way. More »






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