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Marvin Morgan

1 articles · 4 co-authors · latest: 2025-08-08

Born Misaligned: Why Planets Don't Dance to Their Star's Tune

Astronomers peeked into planetary cradles and saw: in a third of cases, the disk of gas and dust is tilted relative to its star. That means worlds are born on crooked orbits, not acquiring chaos later. The discovery explains why even our system is slightly lopsided, and promises a whole menagerie of
arXiv:2508.06488 · 2025-08-08