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A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star
A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star,It’s a rare thing when every single part of an astronomy news story is super cool, but here we are. You’ll want to stick around for all of this. A telescope the size of the planet has observed a binary red dwarf star system for 14 years, nailing down the positions of the two stars to incredible accuracy, and happened to discover a planet more massive than Jupiter orbiting one of them in a plane hugely tilted to the orbits of the stars around each other.

A telescope the size of the Earth sees the wobble of a bizarre planet in a binary star

It’s a rare thing when every single part of an astronomy news story is super cool, but here we are. You’ll want to stick around for all of this. A telescope the size of the planet has observed a binary red dwarf star system for 14 years, nailing down the positions of the two stars to incredible accuracy, and happened to discover a planet more massive than Jupiter orbiting one of them in a plane hugely tilted to the orbits of the stars around each other.