Sentences with phrase «finding circumbinary planets»
«Finding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars,» said SDSU astronomer William Welsh, one of the paper's coauthors, in a press release announcing the discovery.
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The findings help explain why astronomers have detected few circumbinary planets — which orbit stars that in turn orbit each other — despite observing thousands of short - term binary stars, or...
That they found this planet at all --- the second circumbinary planet with such an off - plane orbit — probably means that they're incredibly common, the astronomers say.