Astronomers have detected what may be two planets forming in the same orbit. Such co-orbital planets are predicted by theory but don’t exist in the Solar System and haven’t yet been seen around other stars.
“It’s very cool,” says Matthew Clement of the Carnegie Institution for Science, who was not involved in the study. “With a few more years’ [observations] they would be able to say very confidently that it is co-orbiting.
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