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Circumbinary Planets

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astronomy2 years ago•3 min saved

Astronomers discover Tatooine-like exoplanet orbiting twin suns in multiplanetary system.

Astronomers have discovered a new circumbinary planet, BEBOP-1c, in a star system around 1,320 light-years from Earth, making it the 15th known Tatooine world. The discovery is further proof that these Star Wars-like planets are more common than scientists previously thought. The BEBOP-1 system is also a multi-planetary circumbinary system (MCS), with the previously known BEBOP-1b being around the same size as Saturn. The team will continue to study the BEBOP-1 system to learn more about how circumbinary planets form, and there is a chance that the system contains even more planets waiting to be detected.

via Livescience.com|

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science2 years ago•4 min saved

Scientists find Tatooine-like planetary system using radial velocity data.

Astronomers have discovered a new planet, TOI-1338 c, in a Tatooine-like system that orbits two stars at once. The gas giant is approximately 65 times the mass of Earth and takes 215 days to orbit its sun. It's the second planet to be found in this faraway solar system, following the discovery of TOI-1338 b in 2019. Both orbit their star in the solar system, called TOI-1338, which is about 4.4 billion years old and located 1,300 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Pictoris.

via Daily Mail|

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