December 10, 2020 |

The 11-Jupiter-mass exoplanet called HD 106906 b, shown in this artist’s illustration, occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away. It may be offering clues to something that might be much closer to home: a hypothesized distant member of our solar system dubbed “Planet Nine.” (NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble))
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