**Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of a planet orbiting a binary-star system at close to a right angle. 🌌✨ The system is also unusual in that both stars are brown dwarfs. 🌟🌟**
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Science Advances
Evidence for a polar circumbinary exoplanet orbiting a pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs
Using the dynamics of the three-body problem, a planet orbiting at an angle close to 90° from a binary orbit is inferred.
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Planets may form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our Sun
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University of Lancashire
Two suns are better than one - planets thrive around binary stars
Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our Sun, according to new research from the University of Lancashire