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Slanted Solar Systems Surprise Scientists

This picture was created by an artist to show us what the double star system HK Tauri would look like up close. You can see that both stars are surrounded by a gas disc, which will eventually turn into a planet or even a Solar System like ours! But unlike our own Solar System these planets will follow a wonky orbit because the two discs lie at almost a 90 degree angle to each other.

Credit:

R. Hurt (NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC)

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