3 Solar Systems Scientists Still Don't Understand

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From gigantic planets too close to their stars, to those in unfathomably wide orbits, astronomers have discovered seemingly impossible solar systems that shouldn’t exist at all. But they do. Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bill & Katie Scholl, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/news.2010.655.html https://www.aaas.org/news/science-light-distant-planet-hints-its-formation https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04107 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09684 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aae47b/meta https://www.popsci.com/biggest-solar-system-ever-found-is-very-very-big https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06162 https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-new-planet-formation-theory-could-explain-the-weird-trappist1-system/ https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/201730826 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/recipes-solar-system-exoplanets-formation-rewrite Images: https://nasaviz.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170201.html http://hubblesite.org/image/2896 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spectrum_of_planet_around_HR_8799_(annotated).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alone_in_Space_-_Astronomers_Find_New_Kind_of_Planet.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12844 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA21424_-_The_TRAPPIST-1_Habitable_Zone.jpg Thumbnail: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_TRAPPIST-1_planetary_system.jpg


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