Astronomer Ken Croswell returns to StarDate with a look at the many new planets found orbiting their stars opposite to the direction of the star's rotation. These wrong-way planets defy theories of planet formation, leaving astronomers scratching their heads. Find out how they were discovered, and hear some theories about how they came to have such strange orbits.
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