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It shows how all three objects are orbiting around a shared point in space, with the planet at a right-angle to the paths of the stars.

From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025

Precisely, there is one orbiting Uranus, and two are orbiting Neptune.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024

Robertson explained that when planets are orbiting close to one another, they can pull on each other gravitationally.

From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024

Such alignments occur when the planets in view are orbiting on the same side of the sun as Earth, from the perspective of Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023

The ships are orbiting free right now, scattered through quite a large volume of space.

From Industrial Revolution by Anderson, Poul William