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In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...
"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...
This event will occur in about 23 billion years, yet in only 4 seconds do both stars ... life. These two white dwarfs are expected to collide and explode in a type 1a supernova, one of the ...
They also orbit near their stars, in many cases closer than Mercury is to the Sun. Our solar system, in contrast, appears to be different. “[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar ...
The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.