inner planet

The orbits of the three known planets showed a 3/2 resonance between each neighboring pair: For every three times the inner planet orbits, the outer neighbor orbits twice.

The exoplanets are huge: the inner planet is 14 times as massive as Jupiter and the outer one is 6 times as massive.

But get around these and the view, at least, might be pleasing to the eye: wispy clouds, a giant red sun, and an inner planet that rises like Venus.

How a small inner planet stays on that path as a bigger planet lurches on an elliptical orbit around the same star is a mystery.

How the small inner planet could stay on that path as a bigger planet lurches on an elliptical orbit around the same star is a mystery.