Stars with planets on strange orbits: what’s going on?
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
An artist's impression of a transiting Jupiter-mass exoplanet around a star slightly more massive than the sun.ESO, CC BYAll the planets in our solar system orbit close to the sun’s equatorial plane. Of the eight confirmed planets, the Earth’s orbit is the most tilted, but even that tilt is still small, at just seven degrees.
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