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Robert Lea

Scientists discover bizarre double-star system with exoplanet on a sideways orbit (video)

Illustration of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around its host brown dwarf stars. The newly discovered planet has a polar orbit, which is perpendicular to the plane in which the two stars are travelling.

Scientists have perhaps discovered the weirdest planetary system ever seen. Not only does this system feature the first-ever "polar planet" to be discovered, meaning the world exists on a sideways orbit, but that planet also circles around two stars. But that's not all — those parent stellar bodies are also brown dwarfs, better known as "failed stars."

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