Posted on Jul 30, 2021

Astronomers unexpectedly find strange planetary system where day and night look exactly the same

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Coconuts-2b is a gas giant six times the mass of Jupiter, and is orbiting a low-mass red dwarf star over nine hundred billion kilometres from it

Astronomers unexpectedly find strange planetary system where day and night look exactly the same

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SGT Mary G.

Posted >1 y ago

Interesting. Perhaps any solar system could have a planet that far out, and never know it!
Why don't they just say Coconuts-2b is so far away from its star that it is always night.

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SGT Herbert Bollum

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sounds interesting

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Astronomers unexpectedly find strange planetary system where day and night look exactly the same

Astronomers unexpectedly find strange planetary system where day and night look exactly the same

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