Does every star have planets?

The answer of astronomers is “no”, but they add it is a question of whether they detected a planet near a star of not.

Since 1992 when astronomers discovered the first planet outside the solar system, telescopes have spotted thousands of so-called exoplanets orbiting different stars.

Scientists now know that some stars — like the sun, as well as red dwarf stars many light-years away — are home to more than half a dozen planets, while others have none.

But what makes one star host so many planets while others fly solo?

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Scientists think it may depend on the way the star was formed.

A ring of dust particles that usually surrounds young stars when they are shaping can eventually form planets.

But that model is not always the case.

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