
A planet in a perpendicular orbit around 2 brown dwarfs
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found an exoplanet orbiting a pair of peculiar stars at an angle of 90 degrees. (Credit: ESO/Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallnet, Raquel Yumi Shida and Edison Arango, Amy Briggs and Sean Bromilow, Luis Calçada, Cristoph Malin (christophmalin.com), Martin Kornmesser, Daniele Gasparri, VPHAS+ team and Paola Amico, Mariya Lyubenova)