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Orbital obliquity

SpaceAstronomers discover a strange planet circling its red dwarf star in the wrong direction

GJ 3090 b follows a 136-degree retrograde orbit with no massive companion nearby to explain how the unusual system became tilted.

Joseph Shavit
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