Bizarre ‘inside-out’ solar system that shouldn’t exist discovered

It might not look like much, but a star system shouldn’t look like this (Picture: European Space Agency)

Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system.

When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are rocky and the four furthest are giant gassy balls.

This pattern – rock then gas – isn’t unique to us and has been seen countless times in other star systems.

Yet an...