Kepler-47

STAR SYSTEM · a full family with two suns

PLANETS three, all circling both stars

The first multi planet system found around a double star: three worlds, all orbiting both suns at once. Before Kepler-47, many doubted that the chaotic gravity around a stellar pair could build whole planetary families. It can, and apparently with ease. Binary stars, which make up half the galaxy, are planet country too.

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