Exiled Exoplanet Likely Kicked Out of Star's Neighborhood
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
A planet discovered last year sitting at an unusually large distance from its star - 16 times farther than Pluto is from the sun - may have been kicked out of its birthplace close to the star in a process similar to what may have happened early in our own solar system's history.