Monday, December 9, 2013
The planet that shouldn't exist: Bizarre world orbiting its star from a staggering distance leaves astronomers baffled
The planet that shouldn't exist: Bizarre world orbiting its star from a staggering distance leaves astronomers baffled | Mail Online: "Astronomers have found a distant planet so strange, that according to current planet formation theories, it shouldn’t even exist. The planet is 11 times Jupiter’s mass and orbits its star at an incredible 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance. Named HD 106906 b, the planet is unlike anything in our own solar system and doesn’t fit with any existing planet formation theories."
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