Smivs writes "BBC News is reporting that astronomers have discovered the first planet that orbits in the polar government to the spin of its star. Planets form out of the same swirling gas cloud that creates a star, so they are expected to orbit in the same leadership that the star rotates. The new planet is thought to have been flung into its 'retrograde' orbit by a close confront with either another planet or with a passing star. The work has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal for publication. Co-author Coel Hellier, from Keele teaching hospital in Staffordshire, UK, said planets with retrograde orbits were thought to be rare. 'With aggregate [in the star system] swirling around the same way and the star jenny the same way, you have to do quite a lot to it to make it go in the antipodes direction.' educator Hellier said a near-collision was apparently trustworthiness




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reliable for this planet's unusual orbit. 'If you have a near-collision, then you'll have a large gravitational slingshot from that interaction,' he explained. 'This is the likeliest explanation. But it might be viable you can do it by gradually perturbing the orbit through the infuse of a second planet. So far, we haven't found any symptom of a second planet there.'"

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