Discover a planet orbiting two solar
Text created by automatic translator Elia and has not been subsequently revised by translators. Elia Elhuyar
Artistic image of the planet Kepler-16b. Ed. NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
At 200 light-years from Earth, on NASA's Kepler mission, they find a planet orbiting about two suns. The planet, called Kepler-16b, is an indicator of the diversity existing between the planets.
From the point of view of the Kepler probe, the planet eclipses the two suns and each sun also the other, which has allowed astronomers to know the dimensions of the three. Thus, the planet has a mass and size similar to those of Saturn, and around the two suns makes a circular orbit of 229 days. Stars have between 20% and 68% Sun mass and an eccentric orbit of 41 days.
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