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Breaking the Rules: Rare Exoplanet’s Extremely Strange Orbit Stuns Astronomers

An exoplanet’s elongated, backwards orbit holds clues to the formation history and future trajectories of high-mass gas giants. Astronomers have observed an exoplanet with a highly eccentric and retrograde orbit using the WIYN telescope. This exoplanet, named TIC 241249530 b, could significantly

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