Weird Loner Exoplanet Orbits Far From Its Star
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 15:00
in Astronomy & Space
An exoplanet that orbits its star at a whopping distance of 2,000 times the sun-Earth distance — taking 80,000 (Earth) years to complete one orbit — has been discovered. As far as exoplanets go, that’s the most extreme orbit found to date.