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.
