#kepler-16b

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A planet called Kepler-16b orbits two stars.

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Tatooine-achtige exoplaneet waargenomen door het Observatoire de Haute-Provence

Tatooine-achtige exoplaneet waargenomen door het Observatoire de Haute-Provence

Impressie gemaakt door Amanda Smith van de telescoop van het Observatoire de Haute-Provence met het systeem van Kepler 16-b. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Een team van sterrenkundigen van de Universiteit van Birmingham heeft met de 193 cm telescoop van het Observatoire de Haute-Provence in Frankrijk een Tatooine-achtige exoplaneet waar kunnen nemen, eentje die draait om twee sterren – de naam…

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Tatooine-achtige exoplaneet waargenomen door het Observatoire de Haute-Provence

Tatooine-achtige exoplaneet waargenomen door het Observatoire de Haute-Provence

Impressie gemaakt door Amanda Smith van de telescoop van het Observatoire de Haute-Provence met het systeem van Kepler 16-b. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle Een team van sterrenkundigen van de Universiteit van Birmingham heeft met de 193 cm telescoop van het Observatoire de Haute-Provence in Frankrijk een Tatooine-achtige exoplaneet waar kunnen nemen, eentje die draait om twee sterren – de naam…

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1 and 13 for the ask game from earlier

Favorite planet?

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Kepler-16b, it's a partial gas giant about the same mass as Saturn. It orbits a binary star system and is located within the circumstellar habitable zone. Since it's half gas there can't be life on the planet, its moon however...

Revenge. Thoughts?

Why?

Like, depends on the case but usually it feels kinda pointless

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Onde sua sombra tem companhia (20 de Fevereiro de 2016)

Onde sua sombra tem companhia (20 de Fevereiro de 2016)

Você gostaria tirar umas férias interestelares relaxantes? Considere visitar Kepler-16b, um mundo em um sistema estelar binário. Na verdade Kepler-16b é o primeiro planeta circumbinário descoberto. Ele foi detectado com uma ampla órbita de 229 dias em torno de um par de estrelas frias, de baixa massa, a cerca de 200 anos-luz de distância da Terra. As estrelas-mãe sofrem uma espécie de eclipse…

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Nasa And Olly Moss Create Some Stunning Travel Posters For Newly Discovered "Exoplanets"

.@Nasa & @OllyMoss Create Some Stunning Travel Posters For Newly Discovered "Exoplanets"

Kepler-16b has been given the moniker “the land of two suns” for a good reason.  This newly discovered “exoplanet” was discovered back in 2011 and is one of three that orbit a sun far, far away. To date, the Kepler Space Telescope has discovered over 1000 new exoplanets!

Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial…

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NASA produces vintage travel posters for new planets Kepler-16b, Kepler-186f, HD 40307g

NASA produces vintage travel posters for new planets Kepler-16b, Kepler-186f, HD 40307g

NEW YORK: Tested by a holiday to space? Well you might be after seeing Nasa’s vintage-style travel posters for three recently discovered planets. The space agency have created a series of holiday style adverts for newly located planets Kepler-16b, Kepler-186f and HD 40307g to introduce the public to some of the recent discoveries made by its Kepler Space Telescope which spotted its 1,000th…

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