NASA's Kepler discovers multiple planets orbiting a pair of stars
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 - 18:30
in Astronomy & Space
Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. This system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.