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Huge radio telescope array investigates the birth of planets around twin stars

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Astronomers have gained new insight into the formation of planets around twin stars that orbit each other. Despite the fact that we are most familiar with planets orbiting a single central star – such as the arrangement of our Solar System – more than 50% of the stars in the cosmos exist in a binary … Read more

A doomed egg-shaped exoplanet spirals toward its star

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Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching-hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is in a death spiral that will send it spiraling toward its parent star. Cosmically, a crash is expected to occur relatively soon. Researchers have been predicting for some time that this planet, called WASP-12b, will eventually plunge into its star located … Read more