“Star wars” the famous film series created by George Lucas. “Tatooine” planet the home of Luke Skywalker. “Tatooine” planet is known as circumbinary planets. A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two instead of one. Using Kepler data, astronomers search for such a system.
Kepler-1647 is such a binary star system. Kepler-1647 is 3,700
light-years away and approx 4.4 billion years old. The stars are similar
to the sun, with one slightly larger than our sun and the other a little smaller.
The planet has a mass and radius identical to that of our solar system planet Jupiter,
making it the largest transiting circumbinary planet ever found.
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