Planets around other stars fit a strange pattern

• Autores: Mika McKinnon
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3132, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Exoplanetary systems are like peas in a pod, whatever type of star the planets orbit. This challenges people's ideas about how such systems form. A team led by Lauren Weiss at the University of Montreal in Canada has looked at 909 planets discovered by the Kepler space telescope in 355 systems. All planets in a given system seem to be close in size and similarly spaced in their orbits when compared with planets in other systems