We're missing 75% of worlds with two stars

• Autores: Joshua Sokol
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3099, 2016, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Binaries are twice the trouble. The shifty geometry of planets that orbit two stars means they've missed about 75 per cent of these worlds--but we are playing catch-up. Planets that orbit two stars are truly alien--and they are also trickier to discover and study. Unlike planets around single stars, they shift their orbital paths over just a few years. The Kepler space telescope has spotted 10 of those worlds by watching them transit--cross in front of their stars from their point of view.