Cosmic Symphony: Cheops Mission Exposes a Resonant Sextet of Distant Worlds

A rare star system with six exoplanets has been unlocked with the help of ESA’s Cheops mission. The discovery is particularly valuable because the planets’ orbital configuration shows that the system is largely unchanged since its formation more than a billion years ago. ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) has provided the crucial pieces of data […]

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