Thursday, September 15, 2011

Planet orbits two suns



NASA found a planet in orbit around a double star. These twin stars are 200 light-years away from us in the constellation Cygnus, and each one has a slightly different hue.

"You have an orange star that's 69 percent the mass of the sun, and it is basically dancing with a 20-percent-the-mass-of-the-sun red star," he says. "And they go around each other every 41 days."
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/15/140499991/here-come-the-suns-new-planet-orbits-two-stars

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