NewScience101, Discovery Alert.
A rare case of an in-sync gravitational lockstep in a solar system.
A star smaller and cooler than our Sun hosts a truly strange family of planets: six “sub-Neptunes” – possibly smaller versions of our own Neptune – moving in a cyclic rhythm. This orbital waltz repeats itself so precisely it can be readily set to music.
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