Three examples of a new family of planets, which orbit a pair of stars rather than a single one, have been discovered. The Milky Way may contain millions of these circumbinary planets. See Letter p.475
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Southworth, J. A new class of planet. Nature 481, 448–449 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10818
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