Quarks to Quasars

Purple Planetrise Credit: David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics It is science fiction made fact: Astronomers have discovered two alien planets around the same star whose orbits come so close together that each rises in the night sky of its sister world like an exotic full moon. The newfound planets are 1,200 light-years from Earth and an unprecedented find, researchers said. They differ greatly in size and composition but come within just 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers) of each other, closer than any other pair of planets known, according to a new study. [Full Story: Odd Alien Planets So Close Together They See ‘Planetrise’]

Purple Planetrise

Credit: David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

It is science fiction made fact: Astronomers have discovered two alien planets around the same star whose orbits come so close together that each rises in the night sky of its sister world like an exotic full moon.

The newfound planets are 1,200 light-years from Earth and an unprecedented find, researchers said. They differ greatly in size and composition but come within just 1.2 million miles (1.9 million kilometers) of each other, closer than any other pair of planets known, according to a new study.

[Full Story: Odd Alien Planets So Close Together They See ‘Planetrise’]

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