{"id":105291,"date":"2020-04-13T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/bizarre-exoplanets-orbiting-binary-stars-may-have-strangely-misaligned-orbits"},"modified":"2020-04-13T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:45:15","slug":"bizarre-exoplanets-orbiting-binary-stars-may-have-strangely-misaligned-orbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/bizarre-exoplanets-orbiting-binary-stars-may-have-strangely-misaligned-orbits","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre Exoplanets Orbiting Binary Stars May Have Strangely Misaligned Orbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bizarre-exoplanets-orbiting-binary-stars-may-have-strangely-misaligned-orbits3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an iconic scene in the original <em>Star Wars<\/em> movie where Luke Skywalker looks out over the desert landscape of Tatooine at the amazing spectacle of a double sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/public.nrao.edu\/news\/the-strange-orbits-of-tatooine-planetary-disks\/#PRimageSelected\">new study<\/a> out of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) suggests that such exotic exoplanet worlds orbiting multiple stars may exist in misaligned orbits, far out of the primary orbital plane.<\/p>\n<p>The find has implications for planetary formation in complex multiple star systems. The study used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almaobservatory.org\/en\/home\/\">ALMA<\/a> (the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array) in Chile to look at 19 protoplanetary disks around binary stars with longer period orbits, versus a dozen binary stars known to host exoplanets with periods less than 40 days found in the Kepler space telescope observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an iconic scene in the original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker looks out over the desert landscape of Tatooine at the amazing spectacle of a double sunset. Now, a new study out of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) suggests that such exotic exoplanet worlds orbiting multiple stars may exist in misaligned orbits, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}