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Showing posts with label NASA's Kepler fined out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA's Kepler fined out. 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.