Kepler Finds Bizarre Systems 120
RedEaredSlider writes "The Kepler Space Telescope has run across some truly bizarre solar systems. Among the candidates: a system with full-on planets orbiting in a Trojan configuration, one with planets that all orbit their planets in less than 10 days, and one in which resonances between small and large worlds essentially keep the thing together."
Re:Planets orbiting Planets? (Score:1, Informative)
Shut up, dolt.
Orbital Resonance Visualization (Score:4, Informative)
I was having trouble imagining the 8:6:4:3 resonance pattern, so I dug out this very cool visualisation: http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/WebGL/KOI-730.html [princeton.edu] (needs a WebGL-capable browser, for some reason FF 4 doesn't work though).