Astronomers have gained new insight into the formation of planets around twin stars that orbit one another.
Despite the fact we are most familiar with planets orbiting a single, central star — like the arrangement of our solar system — over 50% of stars in the cosmos exist in a binary system, meaning they have a companion star. These binary systems can also have planets around them that either circle one of the stars in a "circumstellar orbit" or loop both of the stars in a much wider "circumbinary orbit."
