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A passing star may have kicked the solar system's weirdest moons into place

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A new study suggests a passing star may be responsible for more than three-fourths of the moons in our solar system.

This novel model challenges existing notions of how the solar system came to look the way it does today .

The solar system's giant planets are famous for their many moons, including Saturn 's Phoebe , which has an oval-shaped, tilted orbit.