An exiled exoplanet may have been knocked out of its star's neighborhood in a process similar to what happened in the early days of our own solar system.
An exiled exoplanet may have been knocked out of its star's neighborhood in a process similar to what happened in the early days of our own solar system.
The planet, known as HD 106906 b, has a mass about 11 times that of Jupiter and sits at a strangely distant position from its home star.
According to a write-up of the latest research, "Images from the Gemini Planet Imager in the Chilean Andes and the Hubble Space Telescope show that the star has a lopsided comet belt indicative of a very
