Astronomers Spy Two Planets in Tight Quarters as They Orbit a Distant Star

Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 14:01 in Astronomy & Space

A research team led the University of Washington and Harvard University has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet as they orbit very close to each other around the same star.

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