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An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a second planet in a rare multiplanetary system known as BEBOP-1 or TOI-1338. Named

As our Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago, small grains of dust and ice swirled around, left over from the formation of the Sun. Through time, they collided and stuck to each other. As they grew in size, gravity helped them clump together. One such rock grew into the Earth on which we live.

Among the millions of stars being monitored by this satellite, one showed a tiny but recurrent dip in its brightness.This is the tell-tale sign of a planet passing in front of its star every orbit called a transit, blocking some of the stars light.