A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
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This is how vast our solar system actually is
The Solar System is far larger than the neat diagrams found in textbooks. Beyond the planets lies a vast region of icy debris ...
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Inside-out planetary system turns our understanding of how planets form upside-down
We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting closer to their stars than Mercury, and rocky worlds much larger than Earth ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
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