Discovery of alien world with strange, tilted orbit puzzles astronomers

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The planet was found by the way its star wobbles as it moves through space.

An artist's impression of the gas giant planet orbiting GJ 896A, with the companion star B in the background.

Intriguingly, the plane in which the planet orbits is misaligned by 148 degrees relative to the plane of the orbit of the two stars around each other.

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