General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of detectable circumbinary planets. Among the more than 4,500 stars known to host planets, one trend stands out as especially puzzling. Nearly all stars are expected to […]Space,Astronomy,Astrophysics,Exoplanet,General Relativity,Kepler Space Telescope,Stars,UC Berkeley#Planets #Suns #Einstein #Answer1770916797
