Planet Found Orbiting Two Stars at a Perfect 90-Degree Angle

Scitech Daily ^ | April 16, 2025 | European Southern Observatory (ESO)

[Red Badger]

Ping!......................

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Just give us back Pluto and let us get on with our fleeting lives. ;)

[samkatz]

Unless there’s a link to Uranus, I’m not interested!

[rktman]

Ewwwwwwwww! 🤔

[butlerweave]

Will they name it Tatooine ?LOL

[No name given]

Interesting.

[fwdude]

I’m always amused by these detailed conjectures about planets outside our solar system.

Do you know how astronomers know they exist? The star exhibits a periodic “dimming” while the planet transits the face of it. That’s it.

[C210N]

There may be records of these things at the Vatican, of all places...

The Coming and Going Planet

[Dr. Franklin]

brown dwarfs.

Is it still OK to use the term "brown dwarfs", or is that now vertically challenged stars of color?

[Sicon]

a binary brown dwarf

Is this a story about astronomy, or the cast of the live-action remake of "Snow White"?

[55Ford]

More Science Fiction for you.

[Telepathic Intruder]

That’s only one method. It is also the one that has detected the most exoplanets because the Kepler telescope uses it. There is also the Doppler method which was mainly used before Kepler, and measures the star’s wobble due to the exoplanet’s gravitational tug on the star as it orbits. The latest method is to just observe them directly, which they’ve been doing more and more as technology allows.

[jigsaw]

LOL! Good question.

I'm wondering if the above illustration Planet Perpendicular Orbit Around Two Brown Dwarfs is actually a cosmic illustration of Dilbert Creator Scott Adams.

[lgjhn23]

Sounds like a reat place to ship all the domestic insane communists....
Waaaayyy better than an asylum where we’d have to pay to guard, feed and clothe em.

[telescope115]

Fascinating….

[Magnum44]

[sit-rep]

I bet the tides are a sight to behold!!

[MurrietaMadman]

God is Great!

[z3n]

It makes sense. As the two stars oscillate away from the mean center of the ellipse, they correct any chance for the orbiting satellite to drift out of the perpendicular too far. So I would imagine you would see a wobble (or tilting back and fourth) measured greatest at the apogee of the ellipse, but the swing is always back or corrected to the mean.