By precisely tracing a small, almost imperceptible, wobble in a nearby star’s motion through space, astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-like planet orbiting that star, which is one of a binary pair.
An exoplanet slightly larger than Jupiter has been discovered orbiting two stars. The newly discovered circumbinary planet – which is a world that orbits two stars – has been called TIC 172900988b. The planet was found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). It is located about 824 light-years away from us in the constellation. Read more »
No ‘Star Wars’ spoiler alert should be needed to remind everyone that Tatooine is the desert planet home of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, and it’s a planet that manages to sustain life (albeit barely) while orbiting a binary star system too close for comfort. That may be true for five other binary star systems where. Read more »