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Robert Lea

New 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet has a weird orbit and another planet may be to blame

a gaseous planet orbits close to a nearby star, causing some of its gases to be burned off into space

Astronomers have discovered a new "warm-Jupiter" planet with a strange, flattened and misaligned orbit around its parent star.

The exoplanet, designated TOI-1859 b, was discovered using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which spots planets by the dip in light they cause as they cross, or "transit," the face of their star. 

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