New planets orbiting two suns.

An international team of scientists, led from San Diego State University (USA), published this week in Nature the discovery of two new planets orbiting around two stars.

The discovery was made by the Kepler mission systems and the researcher William Welsh.

The two plants, Kepler and Kepler-34b-35b are gas giants.

Kepler-34b orbits two stars like the Sun every 289 days. Its mass represents 22% compared to that of Jupiter (the largest gas giant in our solar system) and 76% radio. Meanwhile, Kepler-35 b is a planet with a mass 13% and 73% of the radius of Jupiter. It orbits a pair of smaller stars every 131 days.

Furthermore, by extrapolation of such data, the authors estimate that about 1% of nearby stars have giant planets with orbits close to it.

Source: sinc

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