3 Solar Systems Scientists Still Don't Understand

From gigantic planets too close to their stars, to those in unfathomably wide orbits, astronomers have discovered seemingly impossible solar systems that shouldn’t exist at all. But they do.

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Sources:

https://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/news.2010.655.html
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Images:

https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170201.html
http://hubblesite.org/image/2896
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spectrum_of_planet_around_HR_8799_(annotated).jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alone_in_Space_-_Astronomers_Find_New_Kind_of_Planet.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12844
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA21424_-_The_TRAPPIST-1_Habitable_Zone.jpg

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