Not exact matches
We're being surprised over and over again:
circumbinary planets, which orbit two stars instead of one,
for example, or compact multi-planet systems.
Tatooine A commonly used epithet
for Kepler - 16b, the first confirmed
circumbinary planet, meaning it orbits two suns like Luke Skywalker's fictional desert world from Star Wars.
The trio is not the only so - called
circumbinary system known, but it is the first
for which researchers have been able to measure the properties of both stars and the
planet so precisely, and the first system where the
planet has been directly detected, rather than inferred.
We'd get jaded, thinking we'd seen it all, and then we'd see something new:
circumbinary planets, which orbit two stars instead of one,
for example, or compact multi-planet systems.
Based on these conclusions
for Kepler - 34, it seems likely that all of the currently known
circumbinary planets have also migrated significantly from their formation locations — with the possible exception of Kepler - 47 (AB) c which is further away from the binary stars than any of the other
circumbinary planets.
Planets in such a system are called «
circumbinary»
for the fact that they circumnavigate both stars.
Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our persp
Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as
circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our persp
planets, and
planet hunters spot them by looking
for a dimming in the light from a star as the
planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.
Since the novel was
for the first time published in 1961, it precedes Star Wars» Tatooine
planet (1977) in terms of the first case of a
circumbinary planet in pop culture.
Based on these conclusions
for Kepler - 34, it seems likely that all of the currently known
circumbinary planets have also migrated significantly from their formation locations - with the possible exception of Kepler - 47 (AB) c which is further away from the binary stars than any of the other
circumbinary planets.