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Planetary science

Giant ‘BEASTie’ planets may have been stolen from their parent stars

24 Sep 2022
BEASTie artistic impression
Big BEASTie: Artist’s impression of a gas-giant planet like Jupiter on a distant orbit around a blue, massive star. (Courtesy: University of Sheffield)
Two astronomers in the UK have shown that some giant planets orbiting far from their host stars have

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