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Orbital resonance − the striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
imagePlanets can gravitationally affect each other when their orbits line up. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our solar system, planets are like grains of sand in a region the size of a football field. The time that planets take to orbit their suns have no specific relationship to each...

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