The First Binary Star System With More than One Planet
Last September, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission announced the discovery of Kepler-16b, a “circumbinary” planet which, like Star Wars’ Tatooine, orbits not one, but two stars. https://gizmodo.com/nasa-weve-discovered-the-first-tatooine-like-planet-5840691 Now, almost one year later, NASA has outdone itself: members of the Kepler mission announced today the discovery of Kepler 47, a binary star system, located about 5,000 light…
