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A distant brown dwarf coplanar to a warm Jupiter and a hot super-Earth

The article discusses the discovery of a distant brown dwarf that shares an orbital plane with a warm Jupiter and a hot super-Earth. It references several scientific studies and papers related to exoplanets, including research on transiting exoplanets, stellar astrophysics models, and planetary formation theories.

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