Kepler 16B Orbit Path. Kepler 16b is so far the first and only example of a confirmed circumbinary planet. One, orange in color, is 69 percent as massive as our sun, and the other, which appears red, is 20 percent as massive.
Thoughts On The End Of The Kepler Mission from www.centauri-dreams.org These planets are known as circumbinary planets. One, orange in color, is 69 percent as massive as our sun, and the other, which appears red, is 20 percent as massive. Researchers say that kepler 16b is composed of roughly half rock and half gas.
The orbit of the binary stars and the planet are perfectly alligned within half a degree.
Kepler 78b is a seething ball of lava about the size of our planet. These planets are known as circumbinary planets. Star a and b are orbiting each other at their barycenter, or center of mass. Both stars are smaller than the sun;
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