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Tuesday, 14 June 2016
Jupiter-like planet orbiting two suns discovered
Kepler-1647 is 3,700 light-years away and around 4.4 billion years of age, generally the same age as the Earth specialists said.
Researchers, utilizing NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, have found a Jupiter-like planet circling an arrangement of two stars, making it the biggest such grandiose body ever found.
The planet Kepler1647b, situated in the group of stars Cygnus, was found by cosmologists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University (SDSU) in the US.
Kepler-1647 is 3,700 light-years away and around 4.4 billion years of age, generally the same age as the Earth specialists said.
The stars are like the Sun, with one marginally bigger than our home star and the other somewhat littler.
The planet has a mass and range almost indistinguishable to that of Jupiter, making it the biggest traveling circumbinary planet ever found. Planets that circle two stars are known as circumbinary planets.
Utilizing Kepler information, cosmologists hunt down slight plunges in brilliance that clue a planet may pass or traveling before a star, hindering a modest measure of the star's light.
"In any case, discovering circumbinary planets is much harder than discovering planets around single stars," said William Welsh, from SDSU.
"The travels are not frequently separated in time and they can differ in term and even profundity," Welsh said.
It takes 1,107 days - a little more than three years - to circle its host stars, the longest time of any affirmed traveling exoplanet discovered as such.
Furthermore, it is much further far from its stars than some other circumbinary planet, breaking with the propensity for circumbinary planets to have close-in circles.
Its circle puts the planet with in the alleged livable zone - the scope of separations from a star where fluid water may pool on the surface of a circling planet.
Like Jupiter, be that as it may, Kepler-1647b is a gas monster, making the planet unrealistic to host life. However in the event that the planet has substantial moons, they could conceivably be reasonable forever.
"Kepler-1647b is critical on the grounds that it is the tip of the chunk of ice of a hypothetically anticipated populace of huge, long stretch circumbinary planets," said Welsh.
The study was distributed in the Astrophysical Journal.
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