Circumbinary planet

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Artist's conception of HD 98800 would look like.

A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one because the stars are so close together that they can only form outside of the orbits of both stars.

External Links

• The Orbital Evolution of a Circumbinary Planet
• On the formation and migration of giant planets in circumbinary discs
• On the evolution of giant protoplanets forming in circumbinary discs