{"id":211647,"date":"2025-04-17T02:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/rare-exoplanet-orbits-twin-stars-in-star-wars-like-twist"},"modified":"2025-04-17T02:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:29:53","slug":"rare-exoplanet-orbits-twin-stars-in-star-wars-like-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/rare-exoplanet-orbits-twin-stars-in-star-wars-like-twist","title":{"rendered":"Rare exoplanet orbits twin stars in \u2018Star Wars\u2019-like twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-exoplanet-orbits-twin-stars-in-star-wars-like-twist2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars\u2014a real-life \u2018twist\u2019 on the fictional twin suns of Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker\u2019s home planet of Tatooine.<\/p>\n<p>The exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, orbits a pair of young <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/brown+dwarfs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brown dwarfs <\/a>\u2014objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. Only the second pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs known\u2014this is the first exoplanet found on a right-angled path to the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/orbit\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">orbit<\/a> of its two host stars.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers led by the University of Birmingham made the surprise discovery using the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The brown dwarfs produce eclipses of one another, as seen from Earth, making them part of an \u201ceclipsing binary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars\u2014a real-life \u2018twist\u2019 on the fictional twin suns of Star Wars hero Luke Skywalker\u2019s home planet of Tatooine. The exoplanet, named 2M1510 (AB) b, orbits a pair of young brown dwarfs \u2014objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211647","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=211647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}