'Maybe Kepler-88 d is the new supreme monarch of this planetary empire, the empress,' said astronomer Lauren Weiss.
There latest discovery sheds new light on the Kepler-88 system, which was already well-known among astronomers for its intriguing characteristics. The two planets that orbit closer to the star, known as Kepler-88 b and c, have a peculiar orbital relationship known as"motion resonance."
This means that for every two orbits that Kepler-88 b completes, Kepler-88 c—which is twenty times more massive—will complete one. This motion resonance greatly increases the gravitational influence that each of the worlds has on the other. "We say that such synchronized pairs of orbits are orbital resonances," Richard Pogge, an astronomer from Ohio State University, who was not involved in the study, wrote in an educational fact sheet."The analogy is to consider a child on a swing being pushed another person.
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