Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a fifth the mass of our Sun. This challenges long-standing ideas about how big planets form, especially around small stars.
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Let’s not size shame the planet or the star here
I’m not super smart by any means… But maybe scientists could be wrong on gravity well a red dwarf star could make?
It’s not the orbit that’s weird, it’s the planet’s formation in the first place.
Then it’s probably a captured orbit.
Probably a death star.