Exoplanetary System Found With 6 Worlds in Orbital Resonance

Exoplanetary System Found With 6 Worlds in Orbital Resonance
By Evan Gough

200 light-years away from Earth, there’s a K-type main-sequence star named TOI (TESS Object of Interest) 178. When Adrian Leleu, an astrophysicist at the Center for Space and Habitability of the University of Bern, observed it, it appeared to have two planets orbiting it at roughly the same distance. But that turned out to be …

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January 29, 2021 at 02:51AM
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