Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

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(THE CONVERSATION) Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich egg, much larger than anything a chicken could lay.

The smaller star, called an M star, is not only…