Why are Tatooine planets rare? General relativity explains why binary star systems rarely host planets - Phys.org
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Why are Tatooine planets rare? General relativity explains why binary star systems rarely host planets - Phys.org

Source:Phys.Org
Author:Robert Sanders

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.