Alien planets orbit in same flat plane around star Kepler-30 |
Feature story - "Planetary Orbits are Flatter Than Pancakes" |
Dusty disk around the star Haro 6-5B |
The milky way's roughly 20 companions, including dwarf satellite galaxies and globular clusters, are distributed in a tidy plane that orbits at a right angle to the disk of the milky way galaxy. Dark matter theories predict there should be a spherical distribution around our galaxy. Scientist Kroupa says on a National Geographic story "there is no dark matter."
Debris ring around star Fomalhaut |
Planetary debris around dwarf star HD 107146 |
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