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Showing posts with label preference of exoplanets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preference of exoplanets. Show all posts

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Scientists have explained the preference of exoplanets


Since the planets in the solar system formed from the same cloud of gas and dust that the star itself, until recently, it was thought that the plane of their orbits must coincide with the plane of rotation of the star. However, beginning in 2008, astronomers began to find more and more exoplanets, which were in highly inclined orbits and even reverse (counter-rotating) with respect to its star.