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Astrobiology

Multiple Planets Circling a Binary Star

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
August 29, 2012
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NASA’s Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars
“NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. The system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, this discovery proves that more than one planet can form and persist in the stressful realm of a binary star.”

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