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A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

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  1. Juvination · · focus · HN ↗
    What are the odds of there being smaller exoplanets that are effectively being outshone by the others? Since each one these is more massive than Jupitar.
    1. wthomp · · focus · HN ↗
      They probably have moons.

      But I doubt they’re outshining other planets — other planets on the same orbit would be unstable, and most likely be ejected from the system very quickly. The system is about fifty million years old, so a good guess is that the orbits have been stable for about fifty million years.

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