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Why does a star wobble?


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  1. It is obvious that the force of gravity shackles a planet to its star.
  2. That star's enormous gravitational influence keeps its planetary family in orbit.
  3. But gravity works both ways: as the planets sweep around in their orbits, they tug on their parent stars to and fro, causing those stars to wobble.

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