NASA's Kepler telescope has spotted a planet that is sure to revive memories of Star Wars — it orbits two stars, like Tatooine, the fictional home planet of Luke Skywalker.Laurance Doyle at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and his team looked for the slight dimming of ...
Stars form when cold interstellar gas and dust gathers and collapses; planets are formed from the leftovers in this process. In many cases, there is enough gas and dust to form two or more stars at once, which means astronomers expect that exoplanets with two suns are not uncommon. “If w...
But when something goes wrong and the cargo spaceship they're caged in suddenly crash lands on an icy planet with two suns, the women are faced with a whole new set of terrifying unknowns. Unlike the cargo ship, though, the ice planet isn't all bad. ...
A planet with two suns: TIC 172900988 b An illustration of exoplanet TIC 172900988 b.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s top planet hunter at the moment isTESS— the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. This detects exoplanets by measuring the slight dimming of their host stars when ...
Two hundred light-years away, a Saturn-size world called Kepler-16 orbits both stars of a two-star system. It's the first one ever directly seen by astronomers.
And the orbit of KOI-5Ab is misaligned with KOI-5B, which is interesting. If all objects had formed from the same swirling disc of material, they should be aligned more or less on the same plane, like the planets of the Solar System around the Sun's equator. The researchers think that...
Cyclones on Jupiter and a moon with flowing magma: NASA Juno probe's latest discoveries are awesome Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere Latest What would it be like living on Tatooine from 'Star Wars'? This exoplanet orbiting twin suns could tell us...
The two suns in the solar system in question, TOI 1338, varied in size, with one being about 10% more massive than Earth's sun and the other 30% of the sun's mass, NASA said. Because the two suns orbit each other every 15 days, it was harder to distinguish the transit events fro...
Binary star systems, where two stars revolve around each other, are quite prevalent in the Milky Way galaxy, with nearly half of the sun-like stars being part of such systems. Until recently, only 14 circumbinary planets, which orbit both stars of a binary system, had been definitively confi...
The planet, Darwin IV, has two suns, and is smaller and hotter than Earth. It seems likely that Darwin IV was covered with large oceans a few million years ago, just like Earth. But because of climate(气候)changes, the oceans disappeared. Darwin IV is also home to many alien plants ...