Kepler 16B Planet. Kepler 16b is so far the first and only example of a confirmed circumbinary planet. Safe in a resonance cell 2013 popova e.
Meet Kepler 16b The First Planet Known To Definitively Orbit Two Stars A Real Life Tatooine From Star Wars Greginsd S Blog Dedicated To Us Public Policy National Defense Science Technology from i270.photobucket.com Data from the kepler spacecraft reveal transits of the planet across both stars, in addition to the mutual eclipses of the stars, giving precise constraints on the absolute dimensions of all three bodies. Kepler 16b is the first circumbinary planet to be confirmed by transit (doyle et al., 2011). However, if we consider a hypothetical moon around this planet, we could consider aspects of.
Researchers say that kepler 16b is composed of roughly half rock and half gas.
This discovery confirms a new class of planetary systems that could harbor life, kepler principal investigator william borucki said. Extrasolar planet in the constellation cygnus (en); The six new planets around kepler 11 are on the bottom. Captain kirk has nothing on the strange new worlds the kepler space telescope has found.
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