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Astronomers studying six planets orbiting a star 100 light years away have just found that they orbit their star with an almost rhythmic beat.
Each pair of planets completes their orbits in times that are the ratios of whole numbers, allowing the planets to align and exert a gravitational push and pull on the other during their orbit.
This t six of alignment is called o 100 light years e, and it’s like a harmony between distant planets.
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory create 'music of the spheres' for the TOI 178 system.
A similar musical translation has been done for the TRAPPIST-1 system, with orbital frequencies scaled up by a factor of 212 million to bring them into audible range.
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