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Robert Lea

NASA's TESS telescope spots 6 exoplanets around 'misbehaving' toddler star

An illustration of the TOI-1136 with its planets and young star.

Astronomers have discovered a rare system of six young planets and a possible seventh that dance around a misbehaving infant star. 

Not only could this system provide much-needed insight into how planets form and evolve around an infant star, but its similarity to the solar system could provide astronomers with a snapshot of what our cosmic neighborhood could have looked like around 4 billion years ago.

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