Detecting inclined planetary system

The Kepler telescope of the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) has transmitted an unusual planetary system, with "residents" maintaining extremely oblique trajectories for central stars.

The object of observation is Kepler-5 6, the aging giant red star, located 3,000 light-years from Earth, and two planets in orbit as well as a giant planet far away.

Normally, the simplest way to develop a planetary system is the sub-planets that lie in orbit with the equatorial plane of the central star.

Kepler-56 star system contains two inner planets with oblique orbits for the central star - (Photo: NASA)

For example, every planet in the solar system lies in orbit within 7 degrees relative to the equator of the sun.

Oblique trajectories can mean a chaotic "childhood" planet, pulled to another plane after confronting a planet.

This is often the case of a planet like Jupiter, a giant planet with orbits near the central star.

However, in the case of Kepler-56, the outer planet maintains its tilting trajectory like the two innermost planets.

The new finding provides evidence that inclined planetary systems can still occur in star systems that do not contain giant gas planets like Jupiter.

This is a study by NASA's Ames Research Center leader Daniel Huber, published in the journal Science.