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Planet squeezed in between two stars
The planet may have formed from material transferred between the stars.
And more data is exactly what a small international team of scientists got, with nearly two years of additional observations using the HARPS ( High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) instrument in Chile. At the distances within ν Octantis, that would allow considerable material to be drawn off the outer companion and pulled onto the surface of what's now the central star. When physically separated from his keyboard, he tends to seek out a bicycle, or a scenic location for communing with his hiking boots.
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