Jiansen Lu
A planet with two suns
November 12th 2011 17:46
NASA uses Kepler space telescope to search for habitable earth-size planets. Researchers found that there are two suns for cold planet Kepler-16b, which has the same size of Saturn. One sun has 69 percent the mass of our solar Sun and another only has 20 percent. The planet Kepler-16b orbits around both suns every 226 days. The Kepler-16b is made of half gas and half rock and 200 light-years from us. The Kepler-16b is thought to be inhabitable due to that liquid water can not stay on its surface.
Video: Kepler Discovers a Planet with Two Suns: Sept 15th, 2011.
NASA's Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a "circumbinary planet"--a planet orbiting two stars--200 light-years from Earth.
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Comment by Anonymous
You must be out of ideas, and have repeated some of your previous blogs.
If you have something to write about make it interesting instead of plagiarising NASA's information
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