Are they siblings? First evidence of two planets sharing same orbit found

Astronomers have discovered the first evidence of two planets sharing the same orbit around a star and they are likely the size of Jupiter...

Using Chile's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the team detected a cloud of debris that could be the building blocks of a new planet or remnants of one that has already formed..

If confirmed, this would be the strongest evidence yet of the existence of co-orbital or Trojan planets...

The international team of scientists used ALMA to find the strongest observational evidence yet of Trojan planets in the PDS 70 system..

However, to fully confirm their findings, they will have to wait until 2026 when they will be able to focus ALMA towards this unique system to see if both PDS 70b and its sibling cloud of debris move significantly along their orbit together around the star...

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