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Like Luke Skywalker's Home, Planets with Two Stars Likely Formed Far, Far Away
Circumbinary planets - where one planet orbits two stars - are an astronomical rarity that can only occur when the planet forms far away from its two parent stars and subsequently migrates into orbit with the binary system, according to new research published in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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