New data confirms: There really is a planet squeezed in between two stars

New data confirms: There really is a planet squeezed in between two stars

The planet may have formed from material transferred between the stars.

Planet found orbiting backward between two stars

While our Sun prefers to go solo, many other stars are parts of binary systems, with a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other. In some cases, the stars are far enough apart that planets can form around each of them. But there are also plenty of tight binary systems, where the stars orbit each other at a radius that would place them both comfortably inside our Solar System. In these systems, exoplanets tend to be found at greater dista…