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Astronomers Discover Polar Circumbinary Exoplanet around Pair of Brown Dwarfs


The newly-discovered planet orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around 2MASS J15104786-2818174 (hereafter 2M1510), an eclipsing binary composed of two equal-mass brown dwarfs.

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