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Binary Stars Out of Sync: One Hosts a Giant Planet, While its Companion is Still Forming Planet


A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation has finished, while a same-aged companion star in this double star system still has a planet-forming disk.

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