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gary
03-10-2023, 11:25 AM
Story at BBC here :-
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66974738
strongmanmike
03-10-2023, 12:13 PM
Pretty awesome huh?...love those cosmic hamburgers :)

Mike
gary
03-10-2023, 01:11 PM
Mmmm, cosmic hamburgers ....
strongmanmike
03-10-2023, 02:38 PM
Proto solar system with orbiting brown dust cloud, at the Mmmmmmichelago General Store Cafe :thumbsup:

Mike
gary
03-10-2023, 04:54 PM
You know what this means ...
ChrisD
03-10-2023, 07:10 PM
Hmmm, lets ask ChatGPT....

Could 2 large planets, around the size of Jupiter, both orbiting around a common star, interact gravitationally in such a way that they are both ejected from the orbit of that star and continue to orbit their common centre of gravity?
gary
06-10-2023, 10:41 PM
Paper "Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in the Trapezium" by Pearson et. al.



Link here to PDF :-
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.01231.pdf