"Kepler-16b", First example of circumbinary planet.

in #science8 years ago

"Kepler-16b" It is the first example of a circumbinary planet [with two stars] confirmed.

Once again we have proven that our Solar System is just one example of the great variety of planetary systems Nature can create, "says Josh Carter, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and one of the authors of this study.

This exoplanet orbits two stars, of which there is not much information at the moment. But it remains one of the rarest cases yet discovered by the human race.



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