A Planet That Flips Its Orbit! 🪐✨

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]A planet orbits three stars instead of one. This world named GW Orionis B lives roughly 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion. It weighs eight times more than Jupiter, yet faces a star 400 times brighter than our sun.

[00:00:12]Normally, such heat would melt rock, but this planet completes a full orbit in just 11 years. The star system is so unstable that the outer star orbits 400 AU from the inner pair. Gravity pulls so hard the planet flicks 180° relative to the surrounding dust disk. The debris disk holds 1,000 and 10 times Earth's mass in dust separated into two distinct rings. Which fact shocked you most? Tell us in the comments and subscribe for more space science.