Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Bluesky Threads If confirmed, candidate planet 2M1510 b would be the first in a polar orbit around two central brown dwarfs Discovery Alert: A Possible Perpendicular Planet
spsheridan on May 29, 2025 8:06 pm This is a highly unusual orbit that is perpendicular to the plane in which the two brown dwarfs orbit each other. Of the more than 5,800 confirmed exoplanets, only 16 orbit binary stars and this is the only one so far that does so in a polar orbit.
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This is a highly unusual orbit that is perpendicular to the plane in which the two brown dwarfs orbit each other. Of the more than 5,800 confirmed exoplanets, only 16 orbit binary stars and this is the only one so far that does so in a polar orbit.