A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...
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Astronomers have discovered a unique planetary system where planets are arranged inside out
The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.
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Inside-out planetary system turns our understanding of how planets form upside-down
We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
The planetary system, located 120 light-years away, features four worlds orbiting a red dwarf star and challenges classical formation schemes.
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
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