One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks

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One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks

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Nature, Published online: 06 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09324-0

Assessment of the stellar obliquities of a sample of resolved protoplanetary disk systems indicates that one-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks, suggesting that the origin of star–planet configurations, including many misaligned planetary orbits, may be primordial.

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