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This Strange Planet Is Going Backwards – and Scientists Don’t Know Why
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London helped identify a planet’s backward orbit, which could offer clues to how planetary systems form and evolve. When a star and its planets form from the same spinning disk of gas and dust, the planets are expected to orbit in the direction the star rotates. Astronomers have now [...]
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