Study Finds Bizarre Exoplanet Orbits for Binary Stars

By David Dickinson - April 08, 2020 10:40 AM UTC | Exoplanets
There's an iconic scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker looks out over the desert landscape of Tatooine at the amazing spectacle of a double sunset. Now, a new study out of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) suggests that such far-flung exoplanet worlds orbiting multiple stars may exist in misaligned orbits, far out of the primary orbital plane.
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