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Planet that shouldn’t exist found (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by coroniavaughns@kbin.social to c/science@kbin.social

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Why is a planet orbiting a star that should have gone through a giant phase?

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[–] wildncrazyguy@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

So the likely scenario is that two stars continued to cannibalize each other to the point where neither got close enough to that super Jupiter sized planet. Neat.