After some lengthy follow-up (the Bennu sample is open at last! And SLIM is alive!), Emily investigates possibly the most podcasty story we’ve had on the show: six planets around distant star HD110067, all locked into resonances that play beautiful music. Turns out if you leave a planetary system alone for long enough, gravity tends to pull everything into simple harmonies. Maybe our own solar system has a song to sing in the far future?
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Things we talk about in this episode:
• The Bennu asteroid sample is open!
• JAXA SLIM updates
• First SLIM images
• Sextuplet symphony: The Nature paper
• A good article about the discovery
• Blog post by Dr Hugh Osborn with exoplanet music video
• Trappist-1 system
• Orbital resonances
• Multiple star systems
• JWST finds methane in exoplanet atmosphere
• A breathless headline
