This 'improbable' exoplanet system is so wonky because of a weird object within
Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), scientists have discovered a planetary system that scientists are calling "improbable." It could change how we think about the mechanisms behind planet formation.The reason for the unusual arrangement of this planetary system is a failed star or brown dwarf designated TOI-201 c. Objects like this get the slightly unfair nickname of "failed stars" because, despite forming from a collapsing cloud of gas and dus
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