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Showing posts with label Multiple Planets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Multiple Planets. Show all posts

Friday, September 7, 2012

NASA's Kepler fined out Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars


Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has exposed multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. This system, Known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4.900 light-years from Earth in the group Cygnus.

This exposure confirm that more than one planet can form and persist in the stressful dominion of a binary star and Demonstrates the diversity of planetary systems in our galaxy.