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    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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  • 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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    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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    ; Giguere, Matthew J.; Schawinski, Kevin (2013). "Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System". The Astrophysical Journal...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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-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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    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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    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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    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-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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    the pulsar's radiation and has been described as a "diamond planet". A circumbinary planet with a mass of 2.5±1 Jupiter masses orbits around PSR B1620-26...
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  • Kepler-453b (category Circumbinary planets)
    William F.; et al. (2015). "Kepler 453 b - The 10th Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet". The Astrophysical Journal. 809 (1). 26. arXiv:1409.1605. Bibcode:2015ApJ...
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  • Thumbnail for Extrasolar planets in fiction
    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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    W.; Fortney, Jonathan J. (2011-09-16). "Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet". Science. 333 (6049): 1602–1606. arXiv:1109.3432. Bibcode:2011Sci...
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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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    Kepler-47c (category Circumbinary planets)
    have a dense atmosphere of water vapor.[citation needed] The planet orbits in a circumbinary orbit around a (G-type) and (M-type) binary star system. The...
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