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Ben Turner

INSANE: 1st known trojan planets discovered locked in the exact same orbit around a star | Rare Historical Photos

A sub-radio image of the system PDS 70, showing its star in the center; the orbit of a Jupiter-sized planet as a thick-band; and an accompanying debris cloud as a thin band.

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of ultra-rare 'Trojan' planets: two sibling planets bound on the same orbit around the same star. 

The potential co-orbiting planets, dancing around the young star PDS 70 roughly 370 light-years away, consist of a Jupiter-size planet and a cloud of debris — possibly the shattered remains of a dead planet, or the gathering building blocks of one yet to be born. 

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