Astronomers search for ‘exotrojans’ hiding in extreme pulsar systems

Greek mythology has given a name to a great many objects in our solar system. But perhaps one of the least well understood are the Trojans, named after the people of Troy featured in “The Iliad.” When astronomers refer to them, they are normally talking about a group of more than 10,000 confirmed asteroids orbiting at the Lagrange points both in front of and behind Jupiter on its orbit around the sun.