A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one. The two stars orbit each other in a binary system, while the planet typically...
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stars and planets. Astrobiology Circumstellar habitable zone Habitability of yellow dwarf systems Planetary habitability Circumbinary planet "Earth-Sized...
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TOI-1338 b (category Circumbinary planets)
First identified by then-17-year-old Wolf Cukier, it was the first circumbinary planet discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). It...
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Exoplanet (redirect from Exosolar planet)
the other planets in order of orbital size. A provisional IAU-sanctioned standard exists to accommodate the designation of circumbinary planets. A limited...
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Circumstellar disc (redirect from Circumbinary disk)
the disk, such as circumbinary planet formation and migration. It was originally believed that all binaries located within circumbinary disk would evolve...
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Kepler-16b (category Circumbinary planets)
days. "[It] is the first confirmed, unambiguous example of a circumbinary planet – a planet orbiting not one, but two stars," said Josh Carter of the Center...
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TOI-1338 (category Exoplanets discovered by Planet Hunters)
about 1,320 light-years from Earth. It is orbited by two known circumbinary planets, TOI-1338 b, discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite...
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Exoplanet naming convention (redirect from Planet naming)
standard exists to accommodate the naming of planets that orbit two stars, which are known as circumbinary planets. A limited number of exoplanets have IAU-sanctioned...
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Methods of detecting exoplanets (redirect from Planet detection)
second planet, Kepler-19c, which has a period which is a near-rational multiple of the period of the transiting planet. In circumbinary planets, variations...
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List of largest exoplanets (redirect from Biggest planet)
"Kepler-1647b: the largest and longest-period Kepler transiting circumbinary planet". The Astrophysical Journal. 827 (1): 86. arXiv:1512.00189. Bibcode:2016ApJ...
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PH1b (redirect from Planet Hunters 1)
PH1b (standing for "Planet Hunters 1"), or by its NASA designation Kepler-64b, is an extrasolar planet found in a circumbinary orbit in the quadruple star...
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Kepler-413b (category Circumbinary planets)
Kepler-413b (also known as Kepler-413(AB)b) is a circumbinary planet orbiting stars Kepler-413 A and Kepler-413 B, which respectively are K and M dwarfs...
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Pluto (redirect from Planet Pluto)
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...
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the binaries with circumbinary planets have a period less than 7.4 days. Another surprising Kepler finding is circumbinary planets tend to orbit their...
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PSR B1620−26 b (redirect from Methuselah (planet))
circumbinary planet ever confirmed. It is also the first planet found in a globular cluster. The planet is one of the oldest known extrasolar planets...
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In astronomy, a disrupted planet is a planet or exoplanet or, perhaps on a somewhat smaller scale, a planetary-mass object, planetesimal, moon, exomoon...
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(AB)b) is a circumbinary planet orbiting the binary star system b Centauri, located in the southern constellation Centaurus. The planet is a super-Jupiter...
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lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation...
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Kepler-1647b (category Circumbinary planets)
transiting Kepler exoplanet discovered yet. It is also the largest circumbinary Kepler planet known. It is 483±206 times more massive than Earth, and 1.52±0...
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Planets outside of the Solar System have appeared in fiction since at least the 1850s, long before the first real ones were discovered in the 1990s. Most...
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Kepler space telescope (section Planet finding process)
Transit Timing Variation (TTV) Planet-finding Technique Begins to Flower. NASA.gov. Planet Hunters Find Circumbinary Planet in 4-Star System – 10.16.2012...
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2M1510 (section Strong planet candidate)
evidence for a circumbinary planet orbiting the brown dwarf pair 2M1510AB. The planet is called 2M1510(AB)b, or just 2M1510b. The orbit of the planet is unusual...
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List of exoplanet extremes (redirect from List of extrasolar planet extremes)
Fabrycky, D.; Cochran, W.; et al. (2012). "Kepler-47: A Transiting Circumbinary Multi-Planet System". Science. 337 (6101): 1511–4. arXiv:1208.5489. Bibcode:2012Sci...
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in 1978. The configuration of the inner binary pair may permit a circumbinary planet to orbit near their habitable zone, however no exoplanets have yet...
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outer planet. In April 2025 astronomers using ESO's UVES instrument on the Very Large Telescope announced strong evidence for a circumbinary planet orbiting...
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Kepler-47 (category Planetary systems with three confirmed planets)
which orbit both stars at the same time, making this a circumbinary system. The first two planets announced are designated Kepler-47b, and Kepler-47c, and...
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Binary star (section Planets)
398..201Q. Schirber, M (17 May 2005). "Planets with Two Suns Likely Common". Space.com. More circumbinary planets are listed in: Muterspaugh; Lane; Kulkarni;...
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Hypothetical astronomical object § Hypothetical planet types Dwarf planet Minor planet Planets in science fiction § Planet types Stellar classification Substellar...
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scenario is the ejection of planets in a tilted circumbinary orbit. Interactions with the central binary and the planets with each other can lead to the...
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been designated PH1b, short for Planet Hunters 1 b. Yellow indicates a circumbinary planet. Light green indicates planet orbiting around one star in a multiple...
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