Saturday, September 01, 2012

NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars

ScienceDaily -- Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. This system, known as a circumbinary planetary system, is 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

MORE: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120828190127.htm

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NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission Science
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120831135012.htm

NASA Launches Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120830075008.htm

NASA's Jupiter-Bound Juno Changes Its Orbit
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120830202851.htm

NASA Rover Returns Voice and Telephoto Views from Mars
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827191958.htm

Curiosity Rover Plays First Song Transmitted from Another Planet
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120828190645.htm

Hubble Spots a Supernova in NGC 5806
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120831135203.htm