No, these are not two rings each with a diamond, as shown in the interpretation of this artist, but a much greater rarity: a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a couple or stars. When an exoplanet is located in a binary star system, which in fact exists, its orbit is usually aligned with the plane where there are two hosts turned with each other. A perpendicular orbit was theoretically anticipated, but this is the first time that astronomers report solid evidence of such a phenomenon. The discovery of this “polar planet”, made using the very large telescope in the European Observatory of Southern Chile, was published in Scientific advances April 16. Another surprising rarity is that the thesis two stars are brown dwarfs that are eclipsed from the perspective of the earth. This “pair of eclipsessing brown dwarfs”, only the second known, was discovered in 2018.
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