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Astronomers Found a Planet Orbiting Backwards Around a Red Dwarf and the Usual Culprit Is Missing

Summary by ZME Science
A small world 4.5 times Earth's mass is circling its star in the wrong direction. Normally there's a bully nearby to blame. This time, there isn't.

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It is called GJ 3090 and orbits around a red dwarf.The planet has a radius 2.2 times greater than that of Earth and a mass 4.5 times higher.

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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A strange planetary system forces to rethink how the worlds around the stars can form

·Madrid, Spain
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A distant planet pulls its orbit against the direction of rotation of its star. This is unusual. The researchers have only one explanation for this.

·Berlin, Germany
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The Chilean Silla Observatory implemented the Planet Seeker spectrograph in the Near Infrared (NIRPS) to measure its mass and determine its unusual orbital configuration. Read more

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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An exoplanet has been discovered with an unusually sharp orbit, with an angle of deviation of up to 136 degrees.

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ФОКУС broke the news on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
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