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Giant planet seeks nursery place

A further discovery of a planet in a binary star system — this time close in — could prove a problem for accepted theories of planetary formation. The implication is that there are more planets out there than we thought.

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Hatzes, A., Wuchterl, G. Giant planet seeks nursery place. Nature 436, 182–183 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436182a

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